ICPC arraigns professor over $40000 bribe

In a single-count cost introduced earlier than Honourable Justice A.O. Otaluka of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Excessive Courtroom 12, sitting in Apo, Abuja, ICPC is accusing the Professor of issuing a cheque valued at $40,000 to a employees of the Fee.

The cheque was a part of the $50,000 and a home in Abuja, promised to the officer to compromise the investigation by retrieving the accused individual’s units, MacBook S/N CIML8BUGDTY3, MacBook S/N W80204J7ATN and iPhone pro11 which have been within the custody of ICPC for investigative actions.

John Kester Ifeanyichukwu had earlier been reported to the Fee by the Presidency for alleged acts bordering on corruption, extortion and cash laundering.

ICPC, in a Cost No: CR/025/2022, knowledgeable the court docket of how the defendant allegedly induced certainly one of its operatives to smuggle out a selected iPhone and a laptop computer and to switch them with a dummy that was to be offered by his private assistant.

The accused individual’s motion is opposite to Part 18 (b) and punishable beneath Part 18 (d) of the Corrupt Practices and Different Associated Offences Act, 2000.

He pleaded not responsible to the cost when it was learn to him. He was subsequently admitted to bail within the sum of N10 million and two sureties in like sum. The sureties should be resident throughout the jurisdiction of the court docket and certainly one of them will need to have a landed property in Abuja.

The trial decide additionally ordered that the Defendant’s worldwide passport and different legitimate journey paperwork should be submitted to the court docket earlier than the following adjourned date in any other case his bail will likely be revoked.

The case has been adjourned to the twenty first of June 2022 for the graduation of listening to.