Patience Jonathan attacks EFCC over money laundering case
Mrs Patience Jonathan, wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, has disowned the companies that allegedly pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering in court on Thursday, September 15, 2016, saying the claims by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) are mere lies meant to destroy her reputation. The Nation reports that Patience Jonathan stated this through her media aide, Yemi Akinbode, saying she has been forced to explain the exact situation to the public concerning the scandal surrounding the $31.7 million allegedly traced to her.
Patience Jonathan said she does not trust the representatives of the companies that pleaded guilty to money laundering “That Mrs Patience Ibifaka Jonathan is laying claim to ownership of a whopping sum of $31.7 million dollars fund recovered by EFCC is a complete fallacy. Mrs.
Jonathan does not own and has never owned such amount of money. The reason for this lie is best known to the EFCC. “That another sum of $20 million dollars has been traced to Mrs. Patience Ibifaka Jonathan, is again, another falsehood aimed at hoodwinking the public against Mrs.
Jonathan. “That a further sum of $5 million dollars has again being traced to another account of Mrs. Patience Jonathan. This is also a fallacy. “That Mrs. Patience Jonathan opened accounts in the names of cooks, drivers and artisans. This is perhaps the biggest falsehood to the knowledge of EFCC,” her statement said, adding that she does not trust the representatives of the four companies who pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering earlier in the day.
The report said her lawyer, Gboyega Oyewole, would help her appeal the validity of the representatives of Pluto Property and Investment Company Limited, Seagate Property Development and Investment Company Limited, Trans Ocean Property and Investment Company Limited and Avalon Global Property Development Company Limited.
Oyewole said: “This is a clear evidence of the desperation of the prosecution to pull down the former First Lady and confiscate her hard-earned money.” The statement further quoted Mrs Jonathan as saying: “This is an irony.
I was the one who went to court for the repatriation of my confiscated money when I realised that the EFCC and its co-travellers were playing politics with this issue after I had come out publicly to say that the said money belongs to me and that I have all evidence to prove the sources of my money.
Ibrahim Magu, chairman of the EFCC The former first lady further denied ever receiving any money from any unknown sources into her accounts. She said her accounts were opened in order to facilitate her travel overseas particularly for medical treatment, sundry purchase for herself and her late mother Mrs Charity Oba (Mama Sisi).
She said she had asked Waripamo Dudafa to open the accounts for her, but he went to open them in his companies’ names rather than her name.
The statement added: “She immediately complained about this anomaly to Hon Dudafa and the bank officials, Demola Doledeoku and Dipo Oshodi came back to the villa with forms to change and convert the said accounts to the personal name of Mrs Jonathan.
“This was her firm request which the bank officials promised to effect immediately and she duly completed account conversion forms and signed the mandate forms as a the sole signatory, but as it would appear, the said bank officials did not change the account names despite her request.”
Patience Jonathan said she does not trust the representatives of the companies that pleaded guilty to money laundering “That Mrs Patience Ibifaka Jonathan is laying claim to ownership of a whopping sum of $31.7 million dollars fund recovered by EFCC is a complete fallacy. Mrs.
Jonathan does not own and has never owned such amount of money. The reason for this lie is best known to the EFCC. “That another sum of $20 million dollars has been traced to Mrs. Patience Ibifaka Jonathan, is again, another falsehood aimed at hoodwinking the public against Mrs.
Jonathan. “That a further sum of $5 million dollars has again being traced to another account of Mrs. Patience Jonathan. This is also a fallacy. “That Mrs. Patience Jonathan opened accounts in the names of cooks, drivers and artisans. This is perhaps the biggest falsehood to the knowledge of EFCC,” her statement said, adding that she does not trust the representatives of the four companies who pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering earlier in the day.
The report said her lawyer, Gboyega Oyewole, would help her appeal the validity of the representatives of Pluto Property and Investment Company Limited, Seagate Property Development and Investment Company Limited, Trans Ocean Property and Investment Company Limited and Avalon Global Property Development Company Limited.
Oyewole said: “This is a clear evidence of the desperation of the prosecution to pull down the former First Lady and confiscate her hard-earned money.” The statement further quoted Mrs Jonathan as saying: “This is an irony.
I was the one who went to court for the repatriation of my confiscated money when I realised that the EFCC and its co-travellers were playing politics with this issue after I had come out publicly to say that the said money belongs to me and that I have all evidence to prove the sources of my money.
Ibrahim Magu, chairman of the EFCC The former first lady further denied ever receiving any money from any unknown sources into her accounts. She said her accounts were opened in order to facilitate her travel overseas particularly for medical treatment, sundry purchase for herself and her late mother Mrs Charity Oba (Mama Sisi).
She said she had asked Waripamo Dudafa to open the accounts for her, but he went to open them in his companies’ names rather than her name.
The statement added: “She immediately complained about this anomaly to Hon Dudafa and the bank officials, Demola Doledeoku and Dipo Oshodi came back to the villa with forms to change and convert the said accounts to the personal name of Mrs Jonathan.
“This was her firm request which the bank officials promised to effect immediately and she duly completed account conversion forms and signed the mandate forms as a the sole signatory, but as it would appear, the said bank officials did not change the account names despite her request.”
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