The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Wednesday sentenced a former Executive Director of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Captain Ezekiel Bala Agaba, to seven years in prison for laundering the sum of N1.5 billion.
Justice Ibrahim Buba handed down the sentence after convicting the former NIMASA ED.
The EFCC had alleged that in 2015, the convict while serving as the ED in charge of Maritime, Safety, and Shipping, fraudulently conspired with the then-Director General, Patrick Akpobolokemi, to obtain the huge sum by false pretence from the Federal Government after which it was fraudulently converted.
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