JUST IN: ICPC recovers $919,207 from Federal High Court Staff
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By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, on Thursday, said it has secured the final forfeiture of $919,202.07 fraudulently kept in an interest yielding bank account by some staff of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt.
The Commission, in a statement that was signed by its Spokesperson, Mrs. Azuka Ogugua, said it recovered the money from three Respondents that included the Chief Registrar and Deputy Registrar of the High Court, as well from a branch of a bank (name withheld) in Port Harcourt.
“In the course of investigating a petition written against some officials of the court for alleged violation of ICPC Act 2000, the Commission’s special investigation team uncovered the money, being the sum of confiscated, value and sold vessel hidden in a bank account.