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A new revelation has been revealed concerning Ex-commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari.
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He is accused of laundering money with the use of ten different bank accounts.
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Abba Kyari is currently being remanded in prison alongside his alleged accomplices, ACP Sunday J. Ubia, ASP Bawa James, Insp. Simon Agirigba and Insp. John Nuhu.
A witness in the ongoing non-disclosure of asset case against Abba Kyari has come out to reveal and expose the sum of N200 million received by him.
The witness, identified as Ahmed Yero, a chief investigator with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA said the defendant received the money into 10 different bank accounts, after he had said he only owned 3 bank accounts.
He added that this was brought into light after his BVN was tracked, revealing all his remaining bank accounts, 12 in total, with two being dormant.
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Mr Yero, while testifying, told the court that on February 14, he was directed to lead a team of operatives of the NDLEA to look into the assets of the defendant.
He added that Abba Kyari runs different domiciliary bank accounts for Dollars, pounds and Euros.
“One of the accounts is a salary account from which the 1st defendant collected salaries and other allowances from the police.
“After we got all the bank statements, we analysed the documents to understand if there was anything that would warrant an explanation by the defendant.
“We firstly looked at the UBA account which he uses to collect salaries. We investigated the account for a period of 16 years, spanning from 2006 to 2022.”
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He further told the court that the money was greater than all the monies received as entitlement from his police jobs, adding that they came directly from the Central Bank of Nigeria, with the description “operational funds”
However, most of the funds were later transferred to family members and associates of the defendant.
“What we also did was to calculate everything the defendant earned in salaries and everything that came into the account from the CBN. We discovered that there was over N200million, above what he should have earned officially.”
The PW-9 added that the defendant claimed that some of the assets that were traced to him, either belonged to his late father or his wife.
The witness equally admitted that there was nothing in the law prohibiting anyone from having one or more bank accounts.
Following the hearing, the presiding judge, Justice James Omotosho adjourned the case till March 24.
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