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PENSION FRAUD: OFFICE OF HEAD OF SERVICE PENSIONS ACCOUNTANT BAGS 21 YEARS.(PHOTO).#PRESS RELEASE.



Pension Fraud: Office of Head of Service Pensions Accountant Bags 21 Years

A former Accountant, Pensions  Account, Office of the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation, Garba Abdullahi Tahir, also known as Tahir Garba, was today, March 3, 2023 convicted and sentenced to 21 years imprisonment  for stealing N26.1million meant for pensioners.

Abdullahi was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission at a Federal High Court, Abuja on a seven count amended charge that bordered on money laundering.

Count six reads, ā€œThat you Garba Abdullahi Tahir (also known as Tahir Garba on or about the 12th April, 2010 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court converted the sum of N7,800,000.00 (Seven Million and Eight Hundred Thousand Naira) into a bank draft or Manager's Cheque in favour of CHARO Bureau de Change Ltd through your bank account with Ecobank Plc, which sum represented part of the proceeds of crime of criminal breach of trust committed by you in the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation with the aim of concealing its illicit origin and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 14(1)(a) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2004 and punishable under section 14(1) of the same Actā€

He had pleaded not guilty to the charges upon arraignment. The case went into trial with the prosecution calling several witnesses and tendering documents in evidence.

Delivering judgment today, Justice Inyang Ekwo said the prosecution had proved the case against the defendant and convicted him on all seven charges.

 The judge sentenced the defendant to three years imprisonment on each of the seven counts. The sentences are however to run concurrently.

The case is a part of the billion naira pension fraud in the Office of the Head of Service of Federation, for which a number of civil servants were investigated over ten years ago, and charged to court by the EFCC.


 

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