The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has faulted claims of the detain, cousin of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Azibaola Robert that he is being pressurize by the agency to implicate the ex-president in the alleged diversion of forty million dollars.
The agency in a counter affidavit opposing the suit filed by Robert before the Federal High Court, Lagos, seeking for an order of the court to release him from the custody of the commission, revealed why the suspect is still in their detention and totally denied any plot to implicate Jonathan in the monumental fraud that his cousin is being investigate for.
Robert is under investigations over an alleged diversion of forty million dollars through One-Plus Holdings and a sister company, Kakatar Construction Limited.
In the 37 paragraphs counter affidavit, deposed to by one Mohammed Abulhamid Hassan, an operative of the agency and filed before the court on May 17, the agency averred that the ex-president’s cousin was not only being investigate over alleged diversion of forty million dollars but also on the theft of N2.5 billons from the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA.
Hassan averred that zonal offices of the agency are saddled with the responsibility of investigating any case or cases reported to them, that Robert was alleged to have received the sum of forty million dollars from former National Security Adviser to the president, Col. Sambo Dansuki and diverted same to his own personal use and to the use of others.
He also revealed that in the course of investigating Robert over the alleged crime, several companies were link to him and his wife, Stella, is the Director of Finance and Accountant of all the companies.
He further averred that after rigorous effort of the commission to arrest the detainee for the offence, he eventually surrendered himself at the verge of declaring him wanted and was later granted administrative bail which he was not able to perfect in Abuja, before the agency got another intelligence report at the zonal office in Lagos which linked him to theft of N2.5 billons from NIMASA.
The EFCC operatives alleged that at the office of the commission in Lagos, Robert during interview session undertook never to show up, if released on bail by the commission, also undertook to hide all property of the companies under investigation.
He averred that investigation has revealed that Robert own Reya Telecommunication Nigeria Limited and KLOKLOK Energy Enterprises, a sussidiary of Kakatar CE Ltd which he falsely refused to declared in his asset declaration form with the commission.
The agency in a counter affidavit opposing the suit filed by Robert before the Federal High Court, Lagos, seeking for an order of the court to release him from the custody of the commission, revealed why the suspect is still in their detention and totally denied any plot to implicate Jonathan in the monumental fraud that his cousin is being investigate for.
Robert is under investigations over an alleged diversion of forty million dollars through One-Plus Holdings and a sister company, Kakatar Construction Limited.
In the 37 paragraphs counter affidavit, deposed to by one Mohammed Abulhamid Hassan, an operative of the agency and filed before the court on May 17, the agency averred that the ex-president’s cousin was not only being investigate over alleged diversion of forty million dollars but also on the theft of N2.5 billons from the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA.
Hassan averred that zonal offices of the agency are saddled with the responsibility of investigating any case or cases reported to them, that Robert was alleged to have received the sum of forty million dollars from former National Security Adviser to the president, Col. Sambo Dansuki and diverted same to his own personal use and to the use of others.
He also revealed that in the course of investigating Robert over the alleged crime, several companies were link to him and his wife, Stella, is the Director of Finance and Accountant of all the companies.
He further averred that after rigorous effort of the commission to arrest the detainee for the offence, he eventually surrendered himself at the verge of declaring him wanted and was later granted administrative bail which he was not able to perfect in Abuja, before the agency got another intelligence report at the zonal office in Lagos which linked him to theft of N2.5 billons from NIMASA.
The EFCC operatives alleged that at the office of the commission in Lagos, Robert during interview session undertook never to show up, if released on bail by the commission, also undertook to hide all property of the companies under investigation.
He averred that investigation has revealed that Robert own Reya Telecommunication Nigeria Limited and KLOKLOK Energy Enterprises, a sussidiary of Kakatar CE Ltd which he falsely refused to declared in his asset declaration form with the commission.
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