Aminu Side Garunbabba, a staff of Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS has been ordered to forfeit two landed properties belonging to him, worth N104m by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
During a federal high court sitting in Abuja yesterday, Justice Obiora Egwuatu granted the order while ruling on the application by counsel to the EFCC, Ekele Iheanacho brought pursuant to Section 17 of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006.
The Court held that the interim forfeiture order be published in Thisday and Punch Newspapers, alerting anyone with interest in the properties to show cause why they should not be forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria.
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The defendant allegedly received Duty Tour Allowance of Three Hundred and Forty-One Million Nine Hundred and seventy-one Thousand, Nine Hundred and Fifty Naira between 2017 and 2018, from the FIRS for travels that were not made and diverted the proceeds to acquire the forfeited properties.
The forfeited properties which are in Abuja and Kano include a four-bedroom Terrace Maisonette with BQ at Barumark Groove Estate, Plot 667 Cadastral Zone Bo3, Wuye District, Abuja purchased at the rate of Sixty Five Million Naira while the other property, bought for Thirty-Nine Million Naira, is situated at No. 5 Lodge Road, Kano State.
The case was adjourned by Justice Egwatu till March 23, 2022, for consideration of the motion for final forfeiture of the properties.
