MADURO, CELIA FLORES ALLOWED TO USE VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT FUNDS FOR ATTORNEYS, ENDING LEGAL STANDOFF. (PHOTO).

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 Maduro, Celia Flores allowed to use Venezuelan government funds for attorneys, ending legal standoff Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Celia Flores will be allowed to use funds from the Venezuelan government to pay their attorneys, resolving a monthlong dispute over legal financing under U.S. sanctions. In a joint filing submitted Friday night, federal prosecutors and defense attorneys informed the court that the Department of the Treasury would amend a sanctions license to permit payments to the couple’s lawyers without violating existing restrictions. The arrangement includes strict conditions, including that any funds used must have become available after March 5, 2026, and cannot come from restricted foreign government deposit accounts. Prosecutors said the updated authorization resolves the funding dispute that had prompted the defense to seek dismissal of the case, and the defense has since withdrawn those motions without prejudice. The legal battle ste...

EFCC ARRAIGNS EX-KWARA FINANCE COMMISSIONER FOR MONEY LAUNDERING.{PHOTO}.#PRESS RELEASE.

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       The Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on January 29, 2020 arraigned the immediate past Commissioner for Finance in Kwara State, Ademola Banu before Justice Babangana Ashigar of Federal High Court, Ilorin on charges bordering on money laundering.
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Banu was arraigned alongside Travel Messenger Company Limited and one Olarewaju Adeniyi on a nine-count charge. .
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The EFCC alleged that the defendants conspired among themselves to launder the sum of N411million belonging to the Kwara State Government.

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