03-01-2019, 04:27 PM
A Federal High Court Sitting in Abuja on Thursday sentenced a former Managing Director of the AeronauticalEngineering and Technical Services Ltd, Tony Omenyi to seven years imprisonment.
Mr Omenyi was charged with laundering a sum of N136 million which he said was received from a contractor with the Nigerian Air Force.
Justice Nnamdi Dimgba in a short judgment ordered the forfeiture of sixty-two million nairas to the Federal Government of Nigeria, being part of the one hundred and thirty-six million nairas recovered from the formal Air Vice Marshall by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
The judge also ordered a compulsory winding up of the said company which was listed as the second defendant in the suit, having been a vehicle of corruption.