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LAGOS COURT JAILS BUSINESSMAN, COMPANY FOR REFUSAL TO ACCEPT NAIRA AS LEGAL TENDER. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE


 Lagos Court Jails  Businessman, Company for Refusal to Accept Naira as Legal Tender


Justice Akintayo Aluko of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Thursday, April 17,  2025 convicted and sentenced a businessman, Aniogor Godswill Obiajulu and his company, ICE BY CW to five years imprisonment for their refusal to accept the Naira as a legal tender


 


Obiajualu, alongside ICE BY CW, was arraigned  on Thursday on a two-count charge bordering on refusal to accept the Naira as a legal tender.


Count one reads: “That you, ICE BY CW and Aniogor Godswill Obiajulu, on the 10th day of December, 2024 in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, refused to accept Naira (Nigeria's legal tender) by accepting the sum of $10,000 (Ten Thousand US Dollars) as a means of payment for the purchase of one diamond Clover bracelet and you thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 20(1) of the Central Bank of Nigeria Act, 2007.”


Count two reads: “That you, ICE BY CW and Aniogor Godswill Obiajulu, on the 10th day of December, 2024 in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, directly retained the total sum of $10,000 (Ten Thousand US Dollars), which sum you reasonably ought to have known forms part of the proceeds of your unlawful activity to wit: pricing and accepting USD as a means of payment for goods and services and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 18 (2) (d) of the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022 and punishable under Section 18 (3) of the same Act.”


He pleaded “guilty” to the charges when they were read to him


In view of his plea,  prosecution counsel, C.C. Okezie, tendered, in evidence, the payment receipt of the bracelet dated December 10, 2024, the defendant’s statement dated December 27, 2024 and the Diamond bracelet.


Okezie also urged the court to convict the defendant as charged.


Delivering judgment, Justice Aluko found the first and second defendants guilty and sentenced them to six months imprisonment each, with an option of fine in the sum of N50,000 (Fifty Thousand Naira) on count one.


The Judge sentenced the second defendant to four years imprisonment, with an option of fine in the sum of N1,000,000.00 (One Million Naira) on count two.


Also, the Judge pronounced a fine of N1,000, 000.00 (One Million Naira) on the first defendant on count two.


The Diamond Clover bracelet was ordered forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria.


 


 The two convicts bagged  their imprisonment for pricing and accepting United States Dollars  as a means of payment for goods and services contrary to  the money laundering  Act.

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