#BBB NEWS| Money Laundering: How Dariye Siphoned N1.2bn Plateau’s Ecological Fund - Witness

The trial of a former governor of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a 23-count charge bordering on money laundering and diversion of funds, continued on January 25, 2016 with the anti-graft agency presenting its witness before Justice Adebukola Banjoko, of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Court, High Court, Gudu, Abuja.

Dariye is accused of diverting about N1.2 billion from the state’s Ecological Fund, to private companies and individuals.

Led in evidence by prosecuting counsel, Rotimi Jacobs, SAN, the EFCC witness, Musa Sunday, a detective with the EFCC, provided details into the findings of the investigative team that probed the allegations against Dariye.

Sunday told the court that the EFCC had in September 2004 received a petition from the office of the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, to wit the UK Metropolitan Police requested assistance of the Nigerian Government in investigating some companies linked to Dariye.