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The High Federal Court, the division of Abuja, Thursday, ordered the final decline of two properties related to a federal worker of internal revenue services, Aminu Garunbaba, to the federal government.
The property includes a terrace corn with four bedrooms with BQ in Barumark Groove Summer, plot 667, the corpsed area, B3, Wuye district, Abuja and purchased by Garunbaba in the name of Myz Venture.
It was also said that the second property, located in No. 5 Lodge Road, Kano, had been purchased by Mr. Garunbaba.
The judge Obiora Egwuatu, in a sentence, said that Mr. Garunbaba did not show the tool he used to buy the property.
The judge declared that even the defendant did not show any reasonable cause that the funds used for the purchase of the property came from his legitimate earnings.
“A person cannot be authorized to benefit from illegitimate acts,” he said.
The judge rejected the preliminary objection presented by Mr. Garunbaba for reasons that the objector did not download the burden to demonstrate that the particular paragraphs in the Application of the FCC have offended the law on tests.
He agreed with a lawyer from the Commission for economic and financial crimes, Martha Babunde, that a public officer can be investigated and pursued before an administrative disciplinary action is undertaken.
The EFCC had, in the marked cause: FHC/Abj/CS/876/2021 filed by Ekele Iheanacho, AMINU SIDI GARUNBABA as the only interviewee mentioned. In the motion on notice of March 16, 2022, but presented on March 21, 2022, the Anti-Innesto Agency prayed for a final order of the Court “losing the properties described in Annex 1 which were found by the Commission for the respondent as a reasonably suspected property of being income of illegal activities”.
By giving four reasons, the EFCC claimed that the Court had the legal powers pursuant to section 17 of the fraud of the early commission and other fraud relating to the FRODE Act, 2006, to ensure the search for relief.
He said: “The assets owned to be attached and dedicated are suspected of being income of illegal activities. The provisional order of this honorable Court was published in two national newspapers, this day and a handful of newspapers. No cause or sufficient cause has been demonstrated because the property under the intermediate detestation should not finally be defeated for the Federal Government of the Nigerian.”
In the sworn declaration in support of the motion made by an FCC agent, Apagu Wudah, the officer said that several investigations were conducted regarding the activities.
He said that as an investigative official with the Agency’s economic governance section, he was assigned to investigate an intelligence relationship on the border with criminal conspiracy, theft, charge abuse and money laundering between some fir tree.
Wudah said that the investigations revealed that between 2017 and 2018, Garunbaba and part of the fir staff conspired with each other and obtained millions of Naira from the FIRs under the service of the service tour, so they never traveled.
He said that in the execution of the fraud, the staff involved requested DTA about a non -existent journey. According to him, after being paid the DTA, the staff would have deduced from 10 to 15 % of the amount paid as a share, while the amount was withdrawn and transmitted to other high officials of the agency, which in turn also kept a bit while going to rest to the former finance director and the coordinator.
Wudah said that Mr. Garunbaba, explaining how he shared part of all the funds, wrote some surprising revelations in his extrajudicial declaration made in the presence of his legal representative on May 23, 2019.
He said the defendant revealed that a total sum of N269,335,750 was given to Peter Hena (N145.000.000), Bello Auta (N95.000.000) and Aminu Sidi (N29,336,750).
He said Garunbaba confessed that the money was given in cash at the FIRS office.
The investigator said that Garunbaba received part of the funds directed through his number of bank account IBTC IBTC 9301540597, while the rest was in cash by other staff members.
He said Mr. Garunbaba also converted most of these US dollars funds through a Bureau de Change operator – Wan Jafar Shehu.
The FCC operator declared in 2018, Garunbaba purchased the Terrace Corn with four bedrooms from the Barumark Investment and Development Company Ltd (Barumark) to N65 million.
He said the money was paid through his first bank account number, 3040986059, to the first bank account of Barumark. He said Mr. Garunbaba purchased the property at n. 5 Lodge Road in Kano in N39 million from Alakhillau Enterprises, which Adamu Muhammed Opera.
Wudah said Garunbaba was a public employee with a fixed annual salary whose legitimate income was not used to buy the ownership described.
He said that the activities were purchased at the time of Mr. Garunbaba and deviate the funds paid as DTA by the FIRS to him and his colleagues.
(Nan)
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