The trial of a former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Oluwafemi Thomas, has been adjourned until May 15 and May 16, 2023.
Thomas appeared before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on Monday on four counts bordering on $2.2 million money laundering.
He was arraigned first in 2016 before Justic Saliu Saidu by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission alongside a Bureaux de Change operator, Kabiru Sidi.
Earlier, the two defendants pleaded not guilty to the charge and were granted bail by Justice Saidu.
However, after Saidu was transferred from the Lagos division of the court, the case was re-assigned to Justice Ayokunle Faji.
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The trial has since commenced in the suit and the defence had opened its case and still giving evidence in court
Mr Ekene Iheanacho, appeared for the prosecution while Mr O. Gbolahan appeared for the first defendant when the case was called on Monday.
According to the allegations against the duo, they concealed the origin of the said sum.
The defendants were also alleged to have made a cash payment of the said sum, to the said Ibitoye, without going through any financial institutions.
The second defendant was alleged to have on July 15, 2015, made a false statement to Mr Afeez Mustapha, an investigating Officer with the EFCC, that he was the owner of the said sum of money.
The offences contravene the provisions of sections 15 (2), 15(3), and 16(2) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011.
It also contravenes the provisions of sections 39(2)(b) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act 2004.