A prosecution witness, Abdulahi Tafida, who is a compliance officer with Zenith Bank Plc on Wednesday, told a\u00a0Federal High Court, Abuja presided over by Justice Okon Abang,\u00a0 monies were wired between companies in the money laundering trial involving Mohammed Dangana, a staff of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS Commission.
\nDangana, an executive assistant to the Financial Controller, ECOWAS\u00a0 Commission Secretariat Abuja, is facing prosecution by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on a 15-count charge, bordering on criminal diversion of funds, misappropriation and money laundering to the tune of over N587.7m
\nHe was arraigned alongside Saleh Dangana (Financial Controller, ECOWAS) and Aliyu Ndagi (both still at large) on October 18, 2019.
\nLed in evidence today by prosecution counsel, Wahab Shittu, Tafida made available in court, the account opening package, mandate card, bank statement and certification of two companies: Dashad and Company Limited and Cactus Facility Management Company involved in the alleged fraud.
\nHe said Saleh Dangana and Alhaji Aliyu Ndagi were signatories to Cactus Facility Management Company, while one Adeitan Tayo and Adeitan Shakira Motunrayo are signatories to Dashad and Company Limited.\u00a0The documents were admitted in evidence by the court, marked A1-A40, B1-B29 and C1-2 respectively.
\nRegarding monetary transfers, Tafida revealed that there was a transfer of N100million, done in two installments of N50million each from Dashad and Company Limited to Cactus Facility Management Company on July 28, 2016. This is said, was followed by another transfer of N62.7million\u00a0between the two companies.
\nOn August 1, 2016, he said N30million was moved to an account named: Recovery Package BDC Limited, domiciled in Diamond Bank and N40million to a company named Sangano Chambers whose account is domiciled in Guaranty Trust Bank, GTB. On same day, he said N20million was also transferred to Halbiz Nigeria Limited, company account, domiciled in GTB.
\nBetween\u00a0August 1\u00a0and 6, 2016, the witness said that over N52million was moved out from Cactus Facility Management Company Limited account.
\nDuring cross-examination by defence counsel Chukwuma Oyenzugwume, Tafida\u00a0 told the court that he was not an account officer to any of the accounts, and did not take part in the opening\u00a0\u00a0of the accounts, affirming also that\u00a0Mohammed Dangana was not a signatory to any of the accounts.
\nMatter was adjourned until\u00a0November 14, 2019\u00a0 \u00a0for continuation of trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A prosecution witness, Abdulahi Tafida, who is a compliance officer with Zenith Bank Plc on Wednesday, told a\u00a0Federal High Court, Abuja presided over by Justice Okon Abang,\u00a0 monies were wired between companies in the money laundering trial involving Mohammed Dangana, a staff of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS Commission. Dangana, an executive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[203,164],"class_list":["post-22500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-ecowas","tag-efcc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}