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Felix John Ella, a software developer from Abuja, has been charged with money laundering for allegedly transferring N3.7 million.
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) filed a criminal complaint against him with the file number FHC/ABJ/CR/123/2022.
Bank of Africa (UBA) account number 2159267033.
According to reports, the offense—which violates Section 33 of the Cybercrime Prohibition Act 2015—was committed on January 12, 2022.
However, after hearing the two-count charge written by Ramia Ikhanaede of the EFCC Legal Department, the defendant entered a not guilty plea.
However, his attorney, Emmanuel Chinedu, pleaded with Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo, the trial judge, to grant his client’s request for release for a number of reasons.
Among other things, he pledged that the defendant wouldn’t violate any of the anti-graft agency’s witnesses’ confidentiality or skip bail.
Chinedu also called the judge’s attention to the fact that the claimed crime was not a death offense, making it a bailable one, and that the defendant would choose a quick trial to prove his innocence.
Justice Ekwo granted the IT Consultant bail in the amount of N2 million and a surety in the same amount in a brief ruling.
The surety must own a piece of land in Abuja, and the original title deed must be deposited with the court during the trial.
In addition, the surety was ordered to surrender his passport for international travel to the court and to refrain from leaving Nigeria without the court’s approval.
The defendant was also forbidden by the judge from leaving Abuja during the trial.
Justice Ekwo ruled that the defendant should be held in Abuja’s Kuje jail while the bail terms were fulfilled.
The complete trial has been scheduled for February 6, 7, and 8 of 2019.
