The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will on Friday arraign a former Managing Director of the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company Ltd, Jimoh Yisawu, to court for alleged money laundering..
He is to be appear before Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja on eight charges, including alleged conversions of $789,950 and $122,600.
Count one of the eight charges alleged that between October 2023 and May 2025, Yisawu indirectly converted the aggregate sum of $789,950 through one Samaila Bala.
“That you, Jimoh Olasunkanmi Yisawu, the former Managing Director of Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company Ltd, between October 2023 and May 2025 in Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, indirectly converted the aggregate sum of $789,950 through Samaila Bala, which amount did not form part of your known lawful earnings as a former public officer with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd (formerly Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation), when you knew that the said sum of $789,950 constituted proceeds of unlawful activity, and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 18(2)(b) and punishable under Section 18(3) of the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022,” it read.
According to Count 2, Yisawu allegedly made various cash payments in excess of N5,000,000 or equivalent amounting in the aggregate to the sum of $789,950 to Samaila Bala without going through a financial institution, an offence the EFCC says contravenes the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022.
The charges further alleged that between February 2024 and March 2025, Yisawu indirectly converted $122,600 through Rasheed Yusuf of Rasheedat Anike Global Ventures, again allegedly in cash and outside the banking system.
“That you Jimoh Yisawu, the former Managing Director of Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company Ltd, between January and June 2015 in Lagos within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, used the aggregate sum of N25,563,000 received into your Zenith Bank Plc Account No. 1003198602 and Access Bank Plc Account No. 0001283432 from Jkpeez Impex Co. (a contractor with subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation now Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd) when you reasonably ought to have known that the said sum constituted proceed of unlawful activity and you thereby committed an offence contrary to section 15(2)(d) and punishable under section 15(3) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 as amended,” it added.
Other counts include: transferring N65,860,000 to Cordros Securities Limited to purchase treasury bills in his name; and retaining N15,000,000 and N3,000,000 respectively, paid into his Stanbic IBTC account by one Olasinka Fragene Justice on behalf of Ebenco Global Link Limited, described as “a contractor to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited.”
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