‘Money laundering’: Court orders attachment of suspect ’s property in Edo

A Federal High Court sitting in Benin City, Edo state, has granted an interim order for the attachment of a property belonging to a suspect, Jessica Oghomwen Iguodala over her alleged failure to look earlier than the courtroom to reply fees bordering on cash laundering and different offences.

The property, situated at No. 127, Independent Street, off Ighomwenghian Street, off Upper Sakponba Road, Benin City, is the topic of an ex-parte movement filed by the police prosecutor, P. I. Odion, Esq., on October 26, 2026, in Charge No. FHC/B/5C/2024.

The utility was supported by a 12-paragraph affidavit deposed to by the Investigating Police Officer (IPO), two reveals marked NPF 1 and NPF 2, and a written deal with.

Ruling on the applying, the presiding choose, Justice B. O. Quadri, stated the applying was supposed to compel the defendant to look earlier than the courtroom.

Counsel to Iguodala, Imagbeghian, Esq., had opposed the applying, arguing that the processes filed by the prosecution had been faulty beneath the Administration of Criminal Justice Law.

He additionally argued that there was no ample foundation for the courtroom to conclude that his consumer, who’s a suspect, had absconded.

In response, the prosecutor advised the courtroom that Iguodala, as the one surviving baby of her mom, inherited the property sought to be connected.

Counsel to Omoruyi Oloton, Chief Executive Officer of Uyi Technical Limited and the nominal complainant, Douglas Ogbankua, Esq., alongside S. U. Obazee, Osamede Enababor, A. J. Onwunaje and O. T. Okeke, challenged Imagbeghian’s look for the defendant.

Ogbankua described the lawyer as a meddlesome interloper, arguing that there was no correspondence earlier than the courtroom to determine that he had been formally engaged as Iguodala’s counsel.

He additional accused Imagbeghian of encouraging the defendant to evade justice and described his look on her behalf as contempt of courtroom.

The newest growth follows an earlier order by the courtroom directing the publication of a public summons requiring Iguodala to look earlier than it on or earlier than March 12, 2026, to reply fees bordering on alleged cash laundering, working a monetary establishment with out a licence and aiding the suicide of Lilian Omokhuale, daughter of Oloton.