Goodluck Jonathan bringing the total amount traced to the former First lady to $20m
As part of investigations into a money laundering case against a former Special Adviser on Domestic Affairs to ex-President Jonathan, Waripamowei Dudafa, the EFCC had traced four company accounts to him with a balance of $15m.
It is recalled that the EFCC charged Dudafa and four other companies with money laundering.
The four companies, whose accounts have since been frozen, are Pluto Property and Investment Company Limited, Seagate Property Development and Investment Company Limited, Trans Ocean Property and Investment Company Limited and Globus Integrated Service Limited.
Information coming from the EFCC revealed that While investigating Dudafa, they traced four companies to him. The companies have domiciliary accounts at Skye Bank with a balance of about $15m. So, EFCC obtained a court order and froze the accounts.
They then traced the directors of the companies who then denied ownership of the accounts.
As investigations continued it was later they got information that the accounts belonged to Patience Jonathan and that she is the sole signatory to the accounts. She was given a special card which she used in making withdrawals across the world.
One would wonder why the account was not opened in her name if she has nothing to hide.
Come to think of it, how will a person who has never held a government position, got such a huge amount in her accounts from.
Patience filed a N200m fundamental rights enforcement suit against Skye Bank Plc.
In her fundamental rights suit, Patience is urging the court to compel the EFCC to immediately remove the No Debit Order placed on her accounts.
She also wants the court to order Skye Bank to pay her damages in the sum of N200m for what she termed a violation of her right to own personal property under Section 44 of the Constitution.
However, the EFCC is in moves to arraign Dudafa and his alleged accomplices for money laundering before a Federal High Court in Lagos.
Further proceedings in the case has been adjourned until September 15.
However, the Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), has said with the fresh admission by Patience that she owns the accounts, the EFCC has the right to probe her.
If she is claims the money belongs to her, she has put herself in a position where she must explain how she earned it.
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