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The bid besides directs banks to apprehension and detain relationship holders oregon anyone recovered transacting concern connected the affected accounts, pending probe and prosecution,
A Federal High Court successful Abuja has issued an bid freezing the slope accounts of 32 individuals and companies allegedly linked to the #EndBadGovernance protests that took spot crossed Nigeria.
The court's ruling, delivered by Justice Emeka Nwite, was successful effect to an ex-parte question filed by the Inspector-General of Police's counsel, Ibrahim Mohammed.
The bid besides directs banks to apprehension and detain relationship holders oregon anyone recovered transacting concern connected the affected accounts, pending probe and prosecution, NAN reports.
Mr Nwite, who granted the question dated and filed connected August 20, directed the banks to interaction the Nigeria Police Force done the telephone numbers: 08035179870 and 07032449912 arsenic soon arsenic apprehension is made.
“That the banks are hereby directed by this honourable tribunal to contented details of the relationship package(s) and to spot a Post-No-Debit (PND) connected the accounts, disable the ATM portion allowing inflow into the said accounts arsenic from the day of this tribunal order,” the justice declared.
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The News Agency of Nigeria reports that though the ruling was made connected Thursday, the certified existent transcript of the bid was sighted connected Sunday successful Abuja.
The relationship numbers affected see 4010073491 (Fidelity Bank), 1255130019 (Access Bank), 0006084167 (Abbey Mortgage Multipurpose Bank Plc), 0821931299 (FCMB), 1012007655 (FCMB), 0000575573 (A AG Mortgage Bank Plc), 1007871587 (UBA), 2037117333 (UBA), 5421031104 (ECOBANK), 0024541201 (Union Bank), 1022899050 (UBA), 8755008491 (Branch International Services Ltd), 5630208636 (Fidelity), and 4936992542 (Fairmoney Microfinance Bank).
Others are 8755008499 (Branch International Financial Services Ltd), 2088228208 (UBA), 2115678044 (Zenith Bank), 3041823452 (First Bank), 1011828445 (New Edge Finance), 3024402748 (First Bank), 0161502459 (GTBank), 0040580047 (Access Bank), 0250291788 (Wema Bank), 6112464260 (Branch International Financial Services Ltd), 1000774097 (Sparkle Microfinance Bank Ltd), 3434649965 (Fairmoney Microfinance Bank), 2013556714 (KUDA Microfinance Bank), 3104962864 (Polaris Bank), 6112464267 (Branch International Finance Services Lit), 8137051249 (OPAY) and 8137051249 (PALMPAY).
The Inspector General of Police, successful the exertion marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1219/2024, listed PA.LIN.HO Global Service Ltd, Innocent Angel Lovet Chinyere Nkiru, Obidient Movement Multipurpose Cooperative Society, Innocent Angel Lovet, Great Communicators Champion Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd arsenic the 1st to 5th respondents respectively
Others see Great Communicators Champion Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd, Opaluwa Eleojo Bob-Simon, NUEE State Chapter, Adeyemi Abiodun Abayomi, Adaramoye Michael Tobiloba, Popoola Festus arsenic 6th to 11th respondents respectively.
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Mr Mohammed, successful his four-ground argument, said the accounts arsenic contained successful the docket successful respect of which reliefs sought are taxable of probe and are reasonably suspected to beryllium warehousing proceeds of unlawful activities oregon fraud.
“If determination is immoderate dealing with the relationship by mode of withdrawal oregon transportation to different relationship by the persons nether investigation/investigator and the persons that person implicit powerfulness to woody with the relationship volition render nugatory immoderate consequential order(s) which the tribunal whitethorn marque astatine the decision of this application,” helium said.
The Inspector-General of Police's counsel alleged that the frozen accounts were utilized for illicit activities, including transgression conspiracy, coercion financing, treasonable felony, cyberbullying, and cyberstalking.
He claimed that funds were unlawfully transferred into these accounts, which are present linked to accused individuals who are presently astatine large.
“That the accused persons were progressive successful hosting different country’s emblem successful bid to undermine the sovereignty of Nigerian state,” helium added.
In the affidavit successful enactment of the question ex-parte, Gregory Woji, a detective attached to Force Criminal Investigation Department, deposed that preliminary probe revealed that immoderate suspects arrested were being recruited by immoderate financiers to origin mayhem and destroyed beingness and property,
Mr Woji said preliminary probe further revealed that the financiers were sending wealth to enlistee the indigents and different susceptible individuals to transportation banners and overthrow a democratically elected government.
Further preliminary investigation, according to the counsel, has uncovered that definite overseas nationals played a cardinal relation successful the reprehensible acts of treasonable felony and coercion financing successful Nigeria.
He stated that the actions of the accused individuals are tantamount to transgression conspiracy, coercion financing, treasonable felony, cyberstalking, and cyberbullying, and are truthful punishable offenses.
Mr. Woji emphasized that it is the police's work to forestall this amerciable enactment by arresting the perpetrators, arsenic an discourtesy against 1 is an discourtesy against all.
He stated that quality reports bespeak that the suspects are attempting to transportation oregon retreat funds from the accounts, and if this tribunal does not assistance this order, the probe volition beryllium compromised.
“That it volition beryllium successful the involvement of justness to assistance this petition by freezing the relationship of the said suspects and bid their contiguous apprehension connected sighting them pending the result of the probe and imaginable prosecution,” helium said.
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