Mompha Gives EFCC Deadline To Apologize

An alleged fraudster, Ismaila Mustapha a.okay.a. Mompha, has requested the Monetary and Financial Crimes Price (EFCC) to apologize over an alleged libellous publication.

Mompha made the demand in a letter signed by his lawyer, Gboyega Oyewole.

The Instagram famous person warned the EFCC that failure to adapt inside 14 days will set off him to take licensed movement .

Oyewole said the anti-graft firm’s spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren made a libellous and defamatory assertion about Mompha.

The licensed practitioner insists his shopper is not going to be a authorized or fraudster as painted inside the publication and had nothing to do with convicted Hamza Koudeih (HK).

Last week, Justice Tijjani Garba Ringim of the Federal Extreme Court docket docket in Ikoyi, Lagos, convicted and sentenced Koudeih, a Lebanese, to one-year imprisonment.

Koudeih and Kayode Phillips have been arraigned by the EFCC on November 28, 2019, sooner than Justice Muslim Hassan on a 25-count bordering on conspiracy and money laundering.

Uwujaren described the duo and Mompha as high-valued targets in Organised Cyber Syndicate Neighborhood who engaged in quite a few cyber crimes.

In certainly one of many counts, EFCC said Phillips (a.okay.a Voice of the King) and Koudeih (a.okay.a. HK), in May 2019, remodeled the mixture sum of $7,069,000; £1 million and €80,000, part of proceeds of fraud.

Their offence was reverse to Sections 18 (a), 15 (2)(d) of the Money Laundering Prohibition Act, 2015 and punishable beneath half 15(3) of the an identical Act.

Uwujaren disclosed that Koudeih approached the prosecution for a plea low cost and that EFCC, via its counsel Rotimi Oyedepo, filed the settlement with an amended price on September 8, 2021.

Delivering judgment, Justice Ringim despatched Koudeih to jail nonetheless gave him an risk N1 milllion super.

He ordered forfeiture of HK’s N100 million in a checking account owned by CHK Property Funding Ltd; Mercedes Benz GLE43; two iPhones and an HP Desktop computer to the Federal Authorities.

In his letter, Oyewole suggested the EFCC that nowhere in any of the prices in direction of Koudeih was Mompha talked about nor found to be an accomplice.

The lawyer educated the payment that Mompha has in no way been convicted of any crime in Nigeria though he faces costs on offences bordering on working a Bureau de Change (BDC) and never utilizing a licence.

“It is embarrassing that an organisation of EFCC’s diploma would swiftly defame a suspect, who to their info is being prosecuted by the organisation and has not been convicted of any crime acknowledged to regulation in Nigeria.

“We need to request that the organisation via its image maker Wilson Uwajaren retract the blanket assertion in direction of our shopper forthwith and with the an identical publicity as was given to his earlier press launch on the matter.

“For many who fail to heed the request of our shopper inside 14 days of the receipt of this letter, we can be constrained to proceed to the courtroom docket of regulation in direction of your organisation for exemplary damages for injurious falsehood”, the letter added.