{"id":15986,"date":"2024-01-23T12:22:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T12:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=15986"},"modified":"2024-01-23T12:22:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T12:22:07","slug":"breaking-obiano-faces-n4bn-money-laundering-charges-trial-set-for-january-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/23\/breaking-obiano-faces-n4bn-money-laundering-charges-trial-set-for-january-24\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Obiano Faces N4bn Money Laundering Charges, Trial Set for January 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex-1 overflow-hidden\">\n<div class=\"react-scroll-to-bottom--css-tcgbn-79elbk h-full\">\n<div class=\"react-scroll-to-bottom--css-tcgbn-1n7m0yu\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col pb-9 text-sm\">\n<div class=\"w-full text-token-text-primary\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-33\">\n<div class=\"px-4 py-2 justify-center text-base md:gap-6 m-auto\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-1 text-base mx-auto gap-3 md:px-5 lg:px-1 xl:px-5 md:max-w-3xl lg:max-w-[40rem] xl:max-w-[48rem] group final-completion\">\n<div class=\"relative flex w-full flex-col lg:w-[calc(100%-115px)] agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-grow flex-col max-w-full\">\n<div class=\"min-h-[20px] text-message flex flex-col items-start gap-3 whitespace-pre-wrap break-words [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5 overflow-x-auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"3e8f7674-b42c-4f4d-90f4-fdbbef46991f\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert dark\">\n<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to arraign the immediate-past governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, on January 24 before Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Obiano faces nine counts of alleged money laundering totaling N4,008,573,350. The move follows EFCC Chairman Ola Olukoyede&#8217;s commitment to reviewing abandoned high-profile cases, particularly those involving former governors and ministers.<\/p>\n<p>An undisclosed source revealed that Obiano purportedly transferred security vote funds into various accounts, later converting the money into dollars and receiving it in cash. EFCC&#8217;s lead counsel, Slyvanus Tahir, SAN, will head the legal team in the trial.<\/p>\n<p>Charges against Obiano include the indirect transfer of funds unrelated to Anambra State&#8217;s security affairs, violating the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act of 2011.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to arraign the immediate-past governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, on January 24 before Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja. Obiano faces nine counts of alleged money laundering totaling N4,008,573,350. The move follows EFCC Chairman Ola Olukoyede&#8217;s commitment to reviewing abandoned high-profile cases, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15986"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16003,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15986\/revisions\/16003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}