The Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC) charged the previous Lagos State Lawyer-Basic and Commissioner for Justice, Supo Sashore (SAN), for alleged cash laundering working into hundreds of thousands of naira on the Federal Excessive Courtroom, Ikoyi.
Shasore, who was the state’s commissioner for justice, in the course of the first tenure of former Governor Babatunde Fashola, shall be arraigned on a four-count cost of cash laundering earlier than Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke on October 20.
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The fee accused the defendant of constructing a money cost of $100,000 to at least one Olufolakemi Adelore with out going via a monetary establishment.
The EFCC alleged that Shashore dedicated the offences in November 2014.
The offences, in accordance with the fee, contravened sections 78(c), 1(a) and 16(1)(d), and 18(c) of the Cash Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 (as amended), and are punishable below part 16(6) and 16 (2)(b) of the identical Act.
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