Court Fines Igbinedion N3m For N25bn Scam
High
Court in Benin - Edo, Sentenced the brother of ex-Governor Lucky
Igbinedion, Michael, to a six-year jail term for N25bn money laundering
offences.
The anti-climactic denouement to a trial that was marked by a series of drama and unconscionable adjournments became ominous Wednesday April 29, 2015 when the trial judge failed to sentence the accused persons having found them guilty on some of the charges in the 81-count information preferred against them by the EFCC. Instead, he fixed the sentencing for the next day, April 30, 2015 but it was clear the direction the pendulum was going to swing, as the two accused persons, Charles Eboigbodin, personal assistant to Lucky Igbinedion and Michael Igbinedion, though allegedly committed the same offense of money laundering, were however convicted on different counts.