{"id":402304,"date":"2021-10-08T19:50:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T18:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=402304"},"modified":"2021-10-08T19:52:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T18:52:01","slug":"efcc-arraigns-ex-governors-aide-wife-for-money-laundering-in-bayelsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=402304","title":{"rendered":"EFCC arraigns ex-governor\u2019s aide, wife for money laundering in Bayelsa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday arraigned Mr Embelakpo Apere and his wife, Beauty, before a Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa Bayelsa State.<\/p>\n<p>The couple was arraignment for money laundering allegedly carried out in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Embelakpo is a former aide on Sustainable Development Goals to the then Gov. Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa.<\/p>\n<p>The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that following the opposition by Defence Counsel, Mr Andrew Arthur, to the arraignment of Embelakpo, the latter\u2019s plea could not taken.<\/p>\n<p>However, the wife, who was arraigned alongside him pleaded not guilty to the seven-count charge slammed on her.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur had argued that Embelakpo had been discharged by the court and could not be tried a second time for the same offence.<\/p>\n<p>The Prosecuting Counsel, Mr M.T. Iko, countered the argument, insisting that the accused was not discharged on merit.<\/p>\n<p>The trial Judge, Justice I.H Ndahen, adjourned the case till Oct. 19 for ruling on the arguments of the two counsel.<\/p>\n<p>According to the charges, Beauty Apere received various amounts in naira, dollars and pounds sterling between May 2015 and April 27, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The EFCC alleged that the funds were proceeds of unlawful acts, punishable under the Money Laundering prohibition Act.<\/p>\n<p>The commission also charged her for forgery of medical and birth certificates which purported emanated from the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa.<\/p>\n<p>The court granted her bail to the tune of N10 million and two sureties who must have landed property in Yenagoa.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant would be in the custody of the Yenagoa Correctional Service pending when she would meet her bail conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The EFCC urged the court to adjourn to Oct. 19 to enable the commission to produce witnesses to establish its case.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday arraigned Mr Embelakpo Apere and his wife, Beauty, before a Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa Bayelsa State. The couple was arraignment for money laundering allegedly carried out in 2015. Embelakpo is a former aide on Sustainable Development Goals to the then Gov. Seriake Dickson of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":402305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2830,3],"tags":[2658,866],"class_list":["post-402304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","category-news","tag-a","tag-efcc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=402304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/402305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}