Embattled former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has told Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court in Abuja that the anti-graft agency Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was responsible for his travails at the London Court where he had been in custody over alleged organ harvest.
Ekweremadu alleged that the EFCC wrote a letter to the London Court which made the foreign court refuse to admit him to bail.
This was contained in an application filed before the Nigerian court seeking an order of the court to set aside an interim order granted in favour of the Federal Government for forfeiture of his 40 properties in the country and outside the country.
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The ex-Deputy Senate President in the application by his counsel, Chief Adegboyega Awomolo (SAN), claimed that the forfeiture order was granted to the Federal Government in error because the EFCC suppressed information and facts in respect of the properties.
Specifically, the detained Senator alleged that the EFCC fraudulently obtained the forfeiture order for the government by concealing information that the investigation on the 40 properties started as far back as 2008.
Among others, he alleged that the EFCC was fully aware that he was in detention in London when the application for forfeiture of the properties was filed and argued.
He said that the anti-graft agency deliberately refused to disclose to the court that he was in London detention and would not be able to counter the forfeiture request.
The former Deputy President and his wife Beatrice were arrested in the UK for conspiring to traffic a child to Nigeria for the purpose of ‘harvesting’ the organs.
They were both charged with conspiracy to arrange or facilitate the travel of another person with a view to exploitation, namely organ harvesting.