Court Of Appeal Acquits Raymond Dokpesi & His Firm, Daar Investment (Photos)

 

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has discharged politician and media owner, Raymond Dokpesi and his firm, Daar Investment and Holding Company Limited, of the charges of money laundering breach of Procurement Act in relation to disbursement of the N2.1billion meant for arms purchase while Col Sambo Dasuki was the National Security Adviser (NSA) in 2014.

In two unanimous judgments on Thursday, a three- man panel of Court of Appeal upholds the two appeals by Dokpesi and Daar Investment and proceeded to set aside an earlier ruling of a Federal High Court, Abuja, which rejected the no-case submissions made by the appellants.

Reading the judgments on Thursday, Justice Elfreda Wiialims-Dawodu held the prosecution did no longer make out a prima facie case against the appellants and did no longer also establish the factors of the offences fee to warrant the appellants to be known as upon to go into defence.

Dokpesi and Daar Investment were being tried earlier than the Federal High Court on a seven-matter price of money laundering and breach of Procurement Act by using the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

At the realization of the prosecution’s case, after calling 14 witnesses, Dokpesi and his organization made no-case submissions, which Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High Court, Abuja, in a ruling on November 24, 2018 rejected and ordered them to enter their defence, a choice Dokpesi and Daar Investment appealed.