We’ve traced Ex-NAF chief Amosu’s UK properties gotten from stolen funds- EFCC

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has revealed that it has discovered two properties which a former Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshall Adesola Amosu (retd.), allegedly illegally acquired in the United Kingdom with funds diverted from the Nigerian Air Force (NAF).

This was made known as the anti-graft agency told the Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday that investigations by its operatives revealed that Amosu purchased the foreign properties in collusion with a Bureau be Change, Right Option Oil and Gas.

The EFCC accused Amosu of removing over N600m from NAF’s operations account and sending it to Right Option Oil and Gas, which in turn was converted to $3m to purchase two properties in the UK.

The commission claimed that this was apart from the sum of N2.1bn, which Amosu allegedly stole from NAF and used to purchase diagnostic equipment for a hospital, Solomon Health Care Ltd., which he owns.

An EFCC operative, Tosin Owobo, made this disclosure at the resumed trial of Amosu and 10 others for an alleged fraud of N22.8bn perpetrated in NAF between March 2014 and April 2015.

The defendants are being tried before Justice Mohammed Idris, where they were arraigned on June 29, 2016 on 26 charges bordering on theft and money laundering.

Those standing trial alongside Amosu are a former Chief of Accounts and Budgeting at the Nigerian Air Force, Air Vice Marshal Jacob Adigun; and a former Director of Finance and Budget, Air Commodore Olugbenga Gbadebo.

The EFCC alleged that the defendants diverted N22.8bn belonging to the NAF, using a number of companies, noting that the said companies were also joined as defendants in the charge.

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