The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had filed N21.5 billion in money laundering allegations against former Chief of Air Staff Adesola Amosun and two other people. On Tuesday, February 6, 2024, the Federal High Court in Lagos dismissed the charges.

On June 29, 2016, Amosun was charged with 26 charges by the EFCC, together with former Nigerian Air Force Chief of Accounts and Budgeting Air Vice Marshal Jacob Adigun and former Director of Finance and Budget Air Commodore Gbadebo Olugbenga.

However, they were re-arrested before Judge Chukwujekwu Aneke on a 13-count amended charge with the file number FHC/L/280C/16 pertaining to N21.5 billion in money laundering.

The accused faced charges of conspiring and misappropriating NAF funding for their own benefit, and they were brought to justice.

Justice Aneke granted the defendants’ prayers on Tuesday, February 2024, when she ruled on their application to have the charge against them dismissed. She did this by upholding a preliminary objection that contested the court’s jurisdiction to hear the case on the grounds that the defendants were active military officers.

Defense attorneys claimed that because the defendants were still officers at that time, a court-martial could only try them.

The judge ruled that instead of accusing them in front of this court, “they ought to have been first investigated by the armed forces and tried as officers of the armed forces.”

He ruled that the Amosun probe, which was conducted on January 30, 2015, was invalid.

Additionally, Justice Aneke dismissed the defendants’ amended allegations.

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