Ademola Oni
One Ademola Oni, a former banker with the Wema Bank, has been sent to jail.
The man was convicted and sentenced to twelve years imprisonment
by Justice Joyce Abudmalik of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ibadan
Oyo State on Thursday, 6th October.
According to NTA News, the man was sent to jail for conspiracy and money laundering.
The court also rules that he forfeits all his properties and cash in various banks as proceeds of the crime.
The journey to prison started for Ademola when he was arraigned by
the EFCC alongside six former officials of the CBN and fifteen others
from different Commercial banks in an alleged case of conspiracy and
money laundering.
The bankers allegedly conspire to steal and conceal mutilated and
defaced local currency amounting to eight billion naira (N8bn) from the
Central Bank of Nigeria.
Ademola, who was the 4th defendant in the matter, however, opted
for a change of plea and entered into a plea bargain agreement with the
prosecuting counsel.
At the resumed hearing Thursday, 6th October, before Justice
Abdulmalik, the prosecuting counsel, Adeniyi Adebisi presented the
perfected agreement and an amended charge to the court against him.
Ademola pleaded guilty to 5 of the 24 amended count charges brought
against him.
Justice Abudmalik convicted him and sentenced him to two and half
years on each of the five counts accordingly. The sentences are to run
concurrently.
One of the Count reads "that you Oni Ademola Dolapo between
2010 and May 2011 in Ibadan, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable
Court did collaborate with Kolawole Babalola, Olaniran Muniru Adeola,
Toogun Kayode Philip, Afolabi Esther Olunike, Ademola Ebenezer Adewale
and Omotosho Abimbola to conceal the genuine nature of an aggregate sum
of N1, 391,280,190.00(One billion, three hundred and ninety one million,
Two hundred and eighty thousand, one hundred and ninety naira) which
sum was illegally derived from the Central Bank of Nigeria, to wit: by
inducing the Central Bank of Nigeria to deliver the said sum to WEMA
Bank Plc as against the actual sum of N338, 719, 810. 00 (Three hundred
and Twenty eight million, seven hundred and nineteen thousand, eight
hundred and ten naira) and thereby committed an offence punishable under
section 14 (1) (b) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2004."
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