A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday allowed safeguard to a representative and originator of Daar Communications Plc, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, in the total of N200m with two sureties in like whole.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on December 11 charged Dokpesi alongside his firm, Daar Investment and Holdings Ltd., on six numbers of government evasion and acquirement misrepresentation including about N2.1bn which he purportedly got from the workplace of the National Security Adviser for the Peoples Democratic Party's presidential media crusade.
Equity Gabriel Kolawole in his decision on an application by protection legal advisors, Chiefs Ifedayo Adedipe (SAN), and Mike Ozekhome (SAN), requested that Dokpesi be remanded in Kuje jail pending when he would satisfy the safeguard conditions.
The judge additionally decided that one of the two sureties who must be a business visionary, must present his or her title deed of a property worth N200m in any piece of Nigeria and produce three years tax clearance declaration for going before years up till 2015.
The judge, who requested Dokpesi to store his international ID and other voyaging reports with the Deputy Court Registrar, Litigation, of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, said the other surety must be a serving or resigned executive in the elected or state government common administration or any of their offices.
Such officer if as yet serving is required to create a letter from his boss to demonstrate that he is still in administration and if resigned must deliver the newspaper of his retirement to demonstrate that he was neither mandatorily resigned nor released from administration.
The two sureties are likewise required to promise to affidavit of means demonstrating that they were worth more than the safeguard aggregates of N200m each.
Equity Kolawole who released every one of the grounds of the indictment's protest to the safeguard application, likewise decided that the two sureties must present their travel permit photos to DCR Litigation.
He released the contention of lead indicting advice, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), who had fought that Dokpesi would meddle with witnesses if discharged on safeguard.
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