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| Timipre Sylva ex Bayelsa governor in big EFCC trouble. |
EFCC have filed 50 new corruption charges against former Bayelsa Governor,Timipre Sylva!
Disappointed by the dismissal of the money laundering charges it filed against the former Bayelsa governor, Timipre Sylva, by Justice A. R. Mohammed of the Abuja Federal High Court, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, released 50
fresh charges against him.
Looks like Ex Governor Sylva has either been a very naughty boy or there is someone at the EFCC who wants him badly!
The charges were increased from the initial 42 to 50 by the anti-graft agency and this has already been filed and will probably be assigned to a new judge. The charges, according to a document were prepared and filed in court by the Director of Legal of the EFCC, Mr. Chile Okoroma.
In the new charges, EFCC listed acts of looting allegedly carried out by Sylva when he was the governor of the state. He is also alleged to have connived with three companies to commit the offences charged against him between 2007 and 2011.
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However, the commission immediately faulted the action of the judge for dismissing the case without it being heard.
It noted that the dismissal of the charge by Justice Mohammed following the application of the commission to consolidate the charges against the former governor and his accomplices, did not amount to a discharge or an acquittal, and it did not preclude the power of the agency to bring fresh charges against the defendants.
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