Four companies comprising of Pluto Property and Investment Company Limited, Seagate Property Development & Investment Company Limited, Trans Ocean Property and Investment Company Limited and Development Company Limited have pleaded guilty for allegedly being used to launder the sum of $15, 591,700m by Waripamo Owei-Dudafa, an Aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan.
They pleaded guilty to the offence before a Federal High Court Sitting in Lagos on Thursday.
The monies involved in the case is the same money which former First Lady, Patience Jonathan claimed belongs to her. Mrs Jonathan had last week filed a fundamental rights enforcement suit where she admitted ownership of the monies. She had asked among other things that the court should compel the EFCC to immediately remove the ‘No Debit Order’ placed on the accounts.
While the companies pleaded guilty, the former Special Adviser on Domestic Affairs to ex-President Jonathan, Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, a lawyer, Amajuoyi Azubuike Briggs and a banker, Demola Bolodeoku pleaded not guilty to a 15 count amended charge.
The offences for which they were all charged was said to have been committed between November 2013 and May 2015.
