Mompha Flaunts Bail Terms Again, Travels To Dubai

Mompha Flaunts Bail Terms Again, Travels To Dubai
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Controversial socialite who is currently embroilled in a tussle with the EFCC, Ismaila Mustapha, also known as Mompha has reportedly breached the terms of his bail by procuring a new passport and travelling to Dubai on 11 April.

The EFCC’s prosecuting counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo has told the Ikeja High Court.

Oyedepo made the startling information known on Friday to Justice Mojisola Dada, in whose court, Mompha, with his company Ismalob Global Investment Limited, was standing trial.

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The Instagram celebrity and businessman was arraigned by the Lagos Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on January 12, 2022.

Oyedepo noted that though the defendant was granted bail, investigation showed that he had another passport apart from the one he submitted to the court as part of his bail conditions, thereby not fully complying with the court’s order.

He said: “We have it on good authority that the defendant has a passport issued in Abuja on the 4th July 2021 to expire on the 30th June 2031.

“Armed with this passport, the information we have from our partners is that, on the 11th of April, 2022 via Emirates Airlines, the defendant flew from Ghana to Dubai.

“That passport was not the one that was submitted to this Honourable Court.”

The defence counsel, Gboyega Oyewole, SAN, however, responded that such facts ought to be presented on oath.

Justice Dada, upon seeing the soft copy of the data page of the said passport, held that the name, photo and signature of the defendant on it were the same with the ones on the passport submitted to the court for the bail and also noted that it was “a serious issue”.

The defendant, who was shown the soft copy in open court, however, denied it was his passport.

Consequently, Justice Dada held that “the bail of the defendant is temporarily revoked until the issue of the passport is resolved.”

Oyewole, however, pleaded with the Court for one week for him to investigate it, noting that it was the Immigration Service that could speak to the existence of the passport in a case where another passport existed.

Justice Dada granted the prayer of the defence and also released the defendant to the defence counsel.

Justice Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, adjourned till June 16, 2022, further hearing in the case.

Mompha was arraigned on eight counts bordering on conspiracy to launder funds obtained through unlawful activity, retention of proceeds of criminal conduct, laundering of funds obtained through unlawful activity, failure to disclose assets and property, possession of documents containing false pretence and use of property derived from unlawful act.

 

Africa Daily News, New York

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