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The ruling tallies with the judgement of another court exonerating Mr Adoke with respect to the controversial OPL 245, widely known as the Malabu Oil deal.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has reportedly sacked its top prosecutors for allegedly receiving bribes to sabotage the Malibu OPL 245 fraud case. The Gazette reported the Mr. Offem Uket who earlier handled cases involving former federal lawmaker, Senator Stella Oduah, Peter Nwaoboshi and Sambo Dasuki, was one of the sacked prosecutors.
The court gave reasons for rejecting the extra-judicial statements in the Malabu scam trial.
The court adjourned for ruling in the trial-within-trial to determine the voluntariness of some extra-judicial statements concerning the...
JP Morganas part of the Malabu OPL 245 corruption trial. The prosecutors also requested the court to accept another email allegedly sent by a former Nigerian attorney general, Bello Adoke, from the email address of a company owned by a “middleman” named in the controversial deal, Abubakar Aliyu. Reuters reports that at a public hearing Wednesday, the prosecutors asked the court to accept the two emails originating from a separate London court case launched by the Nigerian government against JPMorgan Chase. The emails were sent to Italy by the UK authorities. PREMIUM TIMES had reported tha...