Justice A.O. Owoeye of the Federal Excessive Court docket, Ikoyi, Lagos, has adjourned the alleged $340,000 fraud case involving Ezekiel ThankGod, former supervisor of gospel artiste Mercy Chinwo, until 14 Could, for listening to.
The Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC) had filed a three-count cost in opposition to him, amounting to $340,000, bordering on cash laundering and dishonest conversion.
One of many counts reads: “That you just, EZEKIEL ONYEDIKACHUKWU THANKGOD and EEZEE GLOBAL CONCEPTS LIMITED someday in 2023, immediately retained the sum of $260,494 (Two Hundred and Sixty Thousand 4 Hundred and Ninety-4 USD) in EEZEE GLOBAL MINISTRY Zenith Financial institution Plc account quantity, which sums you moderately should have identified varieties a part of the proceeds of an illegal exercise, the dishonest conversion of the stated sum, property of Mercy Chinwo and Judith Kanayo.”
The offence is opposite to Part 18(2)(d) and punishable underneath Part 18 (3) of the Cash Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022.
He was to have been arraigned alongside his firm, Eezee World Ideas Restricted, on 17 February 2025, however his absence stalled his trial.
The court docket had additionally issued a bench warrant for his arrest and ordered him to seem on Thursday both by the subsisting bench warrant or by manufacturing by his counsel.
Court docket proceedings
His counsel, Monday Ubani, SAN, additionally assured him that he could be in court docket on the adjourned date.
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On the resumed sitting on Thursday, prosecuting counsel Bilkisu Buhari knowledgeable the court docket of the prosecution’s readiness to arraign the defendant who was current in court docket.
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“The matter is for arraignment, and topic to the court docket’s overriding comfort, we’re able to start,” she stated.
Justice Owoeye, nonetheless, held that: “There may be an administrative process on this matter, and I can not proceed till the dedication of the process.”
The continued authorized battle between each events took a brand new flip in January.
PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that the Federal Excessive Court docket in Lagos issued a warrant of arrest in opposition to Mr Onyedikachukwu.
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