Appeal Court Sentences Sen Nwaoboshi To 7 Years In Jail For Money Laundering

Delta State Senator, Peter Nwaoboshi (APC) has been sentenced to a seven-year jail term for money laundering by a Lagos Appeal Court on Friday, July 1, 2022.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had earlier in 2018 dragged Nwaoboshi and two of his firms, Suiming Electrical Ltd and Golden Touch Construction Project Ltd before Judge Mohammed Idris who was later promoted to the Court of Appeal.

They were then re-arraigned before Chukwujekwu Aneke in 2018 in a 2-count charge marked FHC/L/117C/18 alleging that they laundered N322 million between May and June 2014.

Aneke ruled against the EFCC, saying they failed to prove the elements of the offences slammed at Nwaoboshi and the other defendants.

In his ruling, Aneke said the case collapsed as “bank officials were not called to testify”.

Unsatisfied with the ruling, the EFCC appealed the decision at the Court of Appeal.

In the Court’s ruling on Friday, it overturned the lower court’s ruling, jailing Nwaoboshi for seven years.

In a statement by the EFCC, it said the Appeal Court judge in his ruling said the lower court was wrong for earlier overturning the charges.

“It said the prosecution had proved the ingredients of the offence and consequently found the defendants guilty as charged,” the statement reads.

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