The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), on Thursday, re-arraigned the purported Director-General of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, Adeniyi Adeyemi.
Adeyemi was re-arraigned earlier than the Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, on a 22-count cost bordering on forgery, impersonation and fraud involving an alleged N30.8bn authorities funding request.
Daily Trust stories {that a} Federal High Court sitting in Abuja had struck out the eight-count legal cost introduced towards Adeniyi Adeyemi by the federal authorities.
Justice Mohammed Umar terminated Adeyemi’s trial earlier than him following the request of the federal authorities to that impact and on the premise that the accused individual could be moved to the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory for contemporary arraignment.
However, Adeyemi, who appeared on Thursday on the FCT High Court pleaded not responsible to all the fees.
The prosecution alleged that Adeyemi solid official authorities paperwork to painting the non-existent council as a legit company and procure authorities recognition, workplace amenities and billions of naira in public funds.
According to the amended fees, Adeyemi allegedly sought greater than N27bn as a take-off grant for the purported council and one other N3.8bn for personnel prices.
The fee accused him of utilizing solid paperwork purportedly signed by the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, to ascertain his claimed place because the council’s director-general.
One of the fees alleged that Adeyemi solid a letter with reference quantity SH/COS/209/A/3456, dated March 8, 2024, purportedly appointing him to go the council.
The prosecution stated the doc was allegedly ready with the intention of creating it seem real and enabling the defendant to occupy authorities workplace amenities on the Federal Secretariat Complex, Phase III, Abuja.
Another rely accused Adeyemi of forging a doc addressed to the Accountant-General of the Federation and captioned, “RE: REQUEST FOR APPROVAL OF SELF-ACCOUNTING STATUS”.
The fee alleged that the doc was meant to allow the purported council to function inside the authorities’s monetary reporting construction.
It additional accused Adeyemi of forging correspondence addressed to the Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency to acquire a site identify for the purported company.
The fees additionally alleged that Adeyemi provided N210,000 to an Assistant Chief Technical Officer within the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Aminu Abdullahi, “to facilitate the allocation of office space,” with out official authorisation.
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