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  • Breaking: Court orders substituted service on Ag EFCC Chairman

    An FCT High Court in Apo, on Tuesday granted leave for substituted service on the acting Chairman of the Economic And Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu.

    Justice Silvanus Oriji , gave the order substituted service, after listening to the submissions of Chief Mike Ozekhome ,SAN, counsel to an Abuja-based lawyer, Monday Ubani and a former Senator, Christopher Enai.

    Oriji had on March 26, granted leave to an exparte motion filed by Ozekhome to charge Ubani and Enai to court or release them on bail on or before March, 28.

    The judge held that the court had the power to make an order for substituted service of the process where it appears that prompt service cannot be conveniently effected.

    ”In exercise of the power of the court under Order 7 rule 11, I grant this motion,” he said.

    He said since the bailiff, Ishaya Markus, was denied access to Magu by the armed security personnel at his office at the EFCC Headquarters.

    Ozekhome said that the operatives told the bailiff that he can only see Magu on invitation.

    Ozekhome, in the motion exparte prayed the court to order form 48 and 49 be served on any officer at the mail registry of the Chairman of the EFCC and legal Department at Headquarters in Jabi.

    He also prayed an order of the court by posting same at the gate of the head office of EFCC.

    Ubani, a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Ikeja branch and Enai, ex-senator representing Bayelsa were invited and detained by the EFCC operatives on March,19.

    The applicants were detained for standing as sureties for Ngozi Olejeme, who once served as the Chairman of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund from 2009 to 2015.

    They are still yet to be charged to court by the EFCC

  • EFCC arrests railway staff, two others for fraud

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a staff of the Nigeria Railway Corporation and two others over alleged fraud and ticket racketeering.

    The commission has also invited three other officials of the Railway Corporation in Kaduna for questioning.

    A source in the commission told The Nation that the arrest followed a tip-off and intelligence report bordering on tickets racketeering, economic sabotage, extortion and other sundry financial malpractice at the Kaduna station of the Kaduna-Abuja train.

    The source said the railway staff and two touts in the EFCC net were picked for defrauding unsuspecting travelers by hiking the traveling ticket fare.

    According to the source, “Operatives of the Kaduna Zonal Office of The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Sunday, April 7, 2019 stormed the Rigasa Station of the Nigeria Railway Cooperation in Kaduna Station on receiving intelligence report bordering on tickets racketeering, economic sabotage, extortion and other sundry financial malpractice.

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    “On arrival at the station at about 9.47am, some of the operatives took strategic position while others disguised as passengers who joined the queue for the purpose of buying tickets.

    “In the cause of the operation, it was observed that due to the kidnapping and robbery on the road highway, there was an influx of travelers, therefore some members of staff of the station in connivance with some touts were defrauding unsuspecting travelers and selling train tickets at higher rates.

    “For economy ticket of N1300/N1500 they were selling at a rate of N2,000 to N5 000 and for first class which is N2500 was being sold for between N7,000 to N15,000.

    “Based on this intelligence observations, the EFCC operatives swung into action and arrested three persons including a staff of the rail station and two touts.

    “In the course of investigation after the arrest, the Station Manager, Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Parcel Booking Officer of the Kaduna Railway Station were invited to the Commission’s Kaduna office for further questioning.” The source disclosed.

     

  • INEC releases timetable for Bayelsa, Kogi gov polls this week

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday said it will release, before the end of this week, the timetable and schedule of activities for the end of tenure governorship elections in Bayelsa and Kogi States billed to hold at separate dates later this year.

    Its chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, made the disclosure when he led other members of the Commission to defend the Commission’s 2019 budget proposal before a joint session of the Senate Committee on INEC and House Committee on Electoral matters.

    Yakubu, while breaking down the Commission’s 2019 budget proposal of N45.4 billion, explained: “This year we are going to conduct two end of tenure elections into the offices of the governors in Kogi and Bayelsa States.

    “This year towards the end of the year we are going to conduct governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsea.”

    He added: “Let me seize this opportunity here to say before the end of this week INEC will issue a timetable and schedule of activities for the governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states”.

    On the 2019 INEC budget, he observed that the Commission was receiving same envelop amount as 2017 and 2018.

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    He said: “For 2019, we were presented with an envelope of N45.5 billion as our regular budget. This is the same envelope as in 2018 only slightly better than the envelopes of several years before them.

    “In 2017, it was 45 billion in 2016 it was 45 billion naira and in 2018 it was increased marginally to 45.5 billion and the same envelope was presented to the Commission in 2018 and 2019.”

    He noted that in terms of performance of the Commissions budget in the previous year, INEC was fully funded.

    “I will say for the 2018 financial year we were fully funded. We were on the first line charge so in terms of the releases from the executive to the Commission we were fully funded,” the INEC boss said.

    The INEC chairman further gave a breakdown of the proposed 45.5 billion naira, which he explained were in four components.

    He said: “The first one is personnel cost and in 2019 the commission is proposing the sum of 21.8 billion naira to cover consolidated salaries for 16,455 career employees of INEC and 51 political office holders, making a total of 16,506 employees of the commission in 2019.

    “The personnel cost is broken into two subheads, you have the consolidated salary of 17.5 billion and you have the social contribution, National Health Insurance, contributory pension, and employee compensation of 4.3 billion naira.”

    The second component, according to Yakubu, is the overhead cost put at N4.2 billion while the third budget head is for electoral expenditure.

    “The Commission is proposing the sum of N17.7 billion under the electoral expenditure to cover such activities as monitoring party primaries, conventions, voter education, stakeholder meeting legal expenses and others,” he explained.

    He said the fourth and final budget head for which N1.6billion was earmarked was for capital expenditure.

    The chairman Senate Committee on INEC, Senator Suleiman Nazif, commended INEC for a job well done in the just concluded 2019 general elections even as he noted that there were concerns that should be addressed going forward.

     

  • EFCC arraigns internet fraudster in Ogun

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has arraigned a suspected internet fraudster, Odeneye Eniola, before Justice Mohammed Abubakar of the Federal High Court, Abeokuta.

    Odeneye was arraigned by the Ibadan Zonal Office of EFCC and charged with obtaining money by false pretense, contrary to Section 1 (1) (a) and punishable under Section 1 (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006.

    The suspect was said to have defrauded one Chris, an American Citizen, of the sum of Three Thousand, Three Hundred United States of American Dollars, by posing as a woman on online platform.

    The count reads:” That you Odeneye Eniola, sometimes in 2019, at Awa Ijebu within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court with intent to defraud, obtain the sum of $ 3300 USD (Three Thousand, Three Hundred United States of American Dollars) from Chris, an American Citizen when you falsely represented to him that you are a woman, which facilitated your collecting money from him through iTunes and play Gift Cards, which representation you knew to be false and thereby committed an offense contrary to section 1(1)(a) and punishable under Section 1 (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Fraud Related Offenses Act 2006.”

    He, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge while the prosecution counsel, Shamsudden Bahir, prayed the court for a trial date and an order to remand him in prison custody pending the determination of his case.

    The defense counsel, A. A. Falujo, made an oral application asking the court to grant the accused bail on liberal terms.

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    Though, EFCC’s counsel was not opposed to bail application but urged the court to grant the bail on terms that would make the accused attend his trial.

    The judge, after listening to arguments of both sides, granted Odeneye bail in the sum of Three Million Naira and two sureties in like sum.

    He also ordered that one of the sureties must be a civil servant, resident and working in Ogun State.

    The matter has been adjourned to 15 May 2019 for trail, while the defendant was to be remanded in prison custody pending the perfection of his bail conditions.

  • EFCC convicts two for Internet fraud in Ibadan

    The Ibadan zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday secured the convictions of Oyinloye Jubril and Bamidele Adegboyega before Justice P. I. Ajoku of the Federal High Court 1, Ibadan.

    Oyinloye was earlier arraigned on March 7, 2019 on a four-court charge bordering on attempt to commit offence under the Advance Fee Fraud Act and obtaining by false pretence, contrary to Section 1(3) of the Advanced Fee Fraud and other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006.

    Bamidele’s initial three-count charge when he was arraigned on March 1, 2019 borders on possession of fraudulent document.

    The duo pleaded not guilty to the initial charges. But before the adjourned date for trial, they approached the prosecution for a plea and sentence bargain.

    Consequent upon the plea bargain agreement, their earlier charges were amended and the convicts re-arraigned on one count charge each of Fraudulent Impersonation, contrary to Section 22 (3)(a) and punishable under Section 22 (4) of the Cyber Crimes (Prohibition, Prevention Etc) Act, 2015.

    They both pleaded guilty to the amended charges.

    READ ALSO: EFCC nabs five internet fraud suspects in Uyo

    Adeola Elumaro and Mabas Mabur, prosecution counsel in Oyinloye’s and Bamidele’s respective cases, prayed the court to convict them based on the plea bargain agreements.

    Justice Ajoku while considering the terms of the bargain, convicted and sentenced them to four months imprisonment with effect from their days of arrest.

    The court also ordered that Oyinloye forfeits to the Federal Government his Honda Accord car, one Techno Phone, One Aitel Phone, One HP Laptop, $1, 250 USD being assets recovered from him in the  course of his investigation.

    Bamidele was, however, ordered to restitute to his victim through Federal Government the sum of $200 USD, one Techno Phone and one Dell Laptop being part of the benefit he derived from his fraudulent act.

  • Akingbola: Court to rule April 18 on documents’ admissibility

    The Federal High Court in Lagos Friday adjourned till April 18 for ruling on the admissibility of documents sought to be tendered in the trial of defunct Intercontinental Bank Plc Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer Dr Erastus Akingbola.

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) sought to tender through its third witness, Uyoyou Ewhe, an Access Bank official, statements of certain accounts domiciled in the bank.

    Prosecuting counsel Rotimi Jacobs (SAN) said he called Ewhe to tender the documents because the intended witness who was to tender them had left the bank and the country.

    Defence counsel Chief Woke Olanipekun (SAN) opposed the application.

    According to him, the documents were freshly sourced when it is the law that before a criminal case is initiated, investigations must have been concluded.

    “The prosecution was sourcing for evidence two days ago in a trial that started 10 years ago,” Olanipekun said.

    Citing a 1965 case of Enahoro and the Queen, Olanipekun contended that the prosecution could not substitute a witness.

    “You cannot substitute a witness in a criminal proceeding; substituting a witness amounts to sourcing for evidence contrary to the decision of the Supreme Court in the celebrated case of Enahoro against the Queen of 1965.

    “If you don’t have your witnesses, you don’t have your witnesses; you cannot substitute witnesses,” he said.

    He urged the judge not to admit the documents on the basis that they emanated from Access Bank, which he said was an interested party in Akingbola’s trial.

    “Section 83 of the Evidence Act prohibits admissibility of this type of document. We have addressed Your Lordship on the interest of Access Bank in this matter, which is undisguised.

    “This witness, the maker of this document, is an official of Access Bank. Put succinctly, this document is an Access Bank document.

    “I dare say, the documents were made as a result of evidence already given, maybe to patch up the evidence; it is a natural consequence which the court is called upon to assume.”

    But, Jacobs said the question of substituting a witness did not arise.

    He said even if it arose, the prosecution was not limited to the list of witnesses in the proof of evidence originally filed.

    He said the Supreme Court did not decide that witnesses cannot be changed in the case of Enahoro, which Olanipekun cited.

    Jacobs said by virtue of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, the prosecution was at liberty to file additional evidence any time before judgment even if freshly made.

    He added that the documents were old statement of accounts of 1990.

    “It is just the letter covering the documents and the certificate showing compliance that are new. It is new bottle with the old wine,” Jacobs said.

    He stressed that the documents were relevant to the case.

    EFCC said Akingbola, between November 2007 and July 2008, “caused to be created a

  • Ondo PDP chiefs: our statements at EFCC not voluntary

    ONDO State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman Clement Faboyede and its former campaign director, Modupe Adetokunbo, yesterday told the Federal High Court in Lagos that statements they made at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) were not voluntary.

    The commission accused them of violating the Money Laundering Act by receiving N500 million in cash ahead of the 2015 general election.

    Faboyede was accused of making N500 million cash payment to the Ondo PDP Election Committee.

    The prosecution said the defendants committed the offence on March 27, 2015, contrary to Section 18 of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011, punishable under Section 16(2).

    Faboyede and Adetokunbo pleaded not guilty when they were arraigned last June 29 and were granted bail for N50 million each with one surety in like sum.

    At the trial yesterday, the second prosecution witness, Mr. Usman Zakari, who was led in evidence by the prosecuting counsel Mohammed Idris, said he was part of a team that investigated the case.

    According to him, sometime in April 2015, the commission received intelligence report that the defendants received N500 million illegally.

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    He said payment receipts showed that the defendants received the cash on March 27, 2015.

    Zakari said an invitation letter was sent to the defendants, which they honoured on December 8, 2016.

    The witness said during the interview, the defendants were shown the payment receipts, and they both identified their signatures, residential addresses and phone numbers.

    According to Zakari, the defendants were subsequently cautioned before their statements were obtained.

    He urged the court to note that the defendants did not present any financial instruments for the withdrawal of the sums, adding that the monies did not emanate from any of them.

    When the prosecutor asked the witness if he would be able to identify the defendants’ statements, he replied, “Yes”.

    Idris then sought to tender the statements, but defence counsel Mr. Eyitayo Jegede (SAN) objected.

    He said the statements dated December 9, 2016, December 14, 2016, January 10, 2017, February 14, 2017, May 31, 2017; January 24, 2018, March 22, 2018 and March 28, 2018 were not voluntarily made.

    He said the fact that they were not made voluntarily violated Section 29(2/(a) of the Evidence Act.

    Jegede, however, did not object to the statements of December 8, 2016 and May 23, 2018.

    Defence counsel, therefore, urged the court to order a trial-within-trial so as to test the statements’ voluntariness.

    Justice Saliu Saidu adjourned until May 16.

     

     

     

     

  • Our statements at EFCC not voluntary – Ondo PDP chieftains

    People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chairman in Ondo State Clement Faboyede and its former campaign director in the state Modupe Adetokunbo Thursday told the Federal High Court in Lagos that statements they made at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was not voluntary.

    The commission accused them of violating the Money Laundering Act by receiving N500 million in cash ahead of the 2015 general election.

    Faboyede was accused of making N500 million cash payment to the Ondo PDP Election Committee.

    The prosecution said the defendants committed the offence on March 27, 2015, contrary to Section 18 of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011, punishable under Section 16(2).

    Faboyede and Adetokunbo pleaded not guilty when they were arraigned last June 29 and were granted bail for N50 million each with one surety in like sum.

    At the trial Thursday, the second prosecution witness, Mr Usman Zakari, who was led in evidence by prosecuting counsel Mohammed Idris, said he was part of a team that investigated the case.

    According to him, sometime in April 2015, the commission received intelligence report that the defendants received N500 million illegally.

    He said payment receipts showed that the defendants received the cash on March 27, 2015.

    Zakari said an invitation letter was sent to the defendants, which they honoured on December 8, 2016.

    The witness said during the interview, the defendants were shown the payment receipts, and they both identified their signatures, residential addresses and phone numbers.

    According to Zakari, the defendants were subsequently cautioned before their statements were obtained.

    He urged the court to note that the defendants did not present any financial instruments for the withdrawal of the sums, adding that the monies did not emanate from any of them.

    When the prosecutor asked the witness if he would be able to identify the defendants’ statements, he replied, “Yes”.

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    Idris then sought to tender the statements, but defence counsel Mr Eyitayo Jegede (SAN) objected.

    He said the statements dated December 9, 2016, December 14, 2016, January 10, 2017, February 14, 2017, May 31, 2017; January 24, 2018, March 22, 2018 and March 28, 2018 were not made voluntarily made.

    He said the fact they were not made voluntarily violated Section 29(2/(a) of the Evidence Act.

    Jegede, however, did not object to the statements of December 8, 2016 and May 23, 2018.

    Defence counsel, therefore, urged the court to order a trial-within-trial so as to test the statements’ voluntariness.

    Justice Saliu Saidu adjourned until May 16.

  • ‘How I escaped being used for rituals in Oyo’

    A middle-aged sex worker on Wednesday narrated how she managed to escape being used for money rituals by suspected internet fraudsters.

    The lady whose name and identity was preferred to be made anonymous for security reasons narrated her ordeals while been kept in custody by security operatives in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital.

    In a statement during the handing over of two suspected internet fraudsters to the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibadan Zonal Office, the middle-aged woman said she had joined the boys alongside some other friends from a club to pass the night with the boys unaware of their antics and intentions.

    The suspects, Sanusi Azeez Toba and Osho Olalekun Micheal, arrested at Kolapo Ishola, Akobo area of Ibadan were handed over to the Oyo State’s special anti-crime patrol outfit codenamed, “Operation Burst”, after the escaped victims reported the matter to them.

    She added that she had to jump down from a two storey building where she and others were taken hostage and later scale a fence when she noticed the boys were acting funny in the middle of the night.

    She said “We met at the club last night and we all went back to their apartment to sleep over. At some point I noticed some funny movement and saw them with a calabash (a native pot).

    “That was when I knew they were ritualists with the intention to use me for rituals. So I jumped off the two-storey building, and off the fence. I then reported the case to the ‘Operation Burst’”

    Preliminary investigations have also revealed that the suspects have various incriminating documents stored in the laptops and phones recovered from them at the point of arrest.

    The development is coming even as operatives from the Ibadan Zonal Office of the Commission also on Wednesday, arrested another twelve suspected internet fraudsters, popularly known as ‘Yahoo-Yahoo Boys’

    While six of the suspects were arrested at 2nd Pipeline, Ologunerun, Ibadan, the other five were picked up at a location in Ijebu-Remo, Ogun State.

    Those from Ibadan are Akinbinu Akinfemi, Wasiu Adeyemi, Idowu Samson, Tijani Usman, Saheed Eniafe and Adeyi Victor.

    Benson Gospel, Abdulazeez Gafar, Agbumabiwon Abiodun, Abayomi Awotedu, and Bukayo Abiodun were apprehended at Ijebu Remo.

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    Ranging between the ages of 17 and 29 years, the alleged fraudsters’ arrests were occasioned by petitions from their neighbours, detailing their alleged fraudulent activities.

    The alleged acts include love scam and other forms of internet fraud through which they obtain money from unsuspecting victims.

    Items recovered from them include laptops, mobile phones and several documents containing false pretences.

    “All the suspects will be charged to court as soon as investigations are concluded”, a source within the Ibadan zonal office of the commission noted.

  • NJC advises Buhari to retire Onnoghen over $1.7m cash

    The National Judicial Council (NJC) has recommended the compulsory retirement of the Chief Justice of Nigeria Justice Walter Onnoghen, based on “incontrovertible” findings on him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission( EFCC).

    It asked President Muhammadu Buhari to give effect to the recommendation immediately.

    But the NJC urged the President to allow Justice Onnoghen retain his seat as a former CJN in the Council of State.

    The council also said the CJN should be retired with full benefits.

    According to a source, who pleaded not to be named “because of the sensitivity of the matter”, the compulsory retirement of Justice Onnoghen was the major highlight of NJC’s meeting yesterday.

    All NJC members were said to have decided not to comment on  the meeting because “it would not be right to do so when a letter has been sent to  the President  on their decision.” He should get the letter before any comment, the source said.

    The source said: “The NJC has been able to navigate the most challenging moment for the nation’s judiciary by recommending compulsory retirement of Onnoghen with full benefits.

    “The NJC specifically demanded that the CJN be allowed to take his eminent position in the Council of State like his predecessors.

    “If these recommendations are accepted, the Executive may be on the same page with the Judiciary by staying action on the ongoing trial and other pending trials of the CJN.”

    The NJC may have adopted a “win-win approach” to ensure that the Executive and the Judiciary are on the same page.”

    Another source familiar with how the NJC arrived at its decision said the “EFCC’s report on Justice Onnoghen was damning and incontrovertible”.

    The anti-graft agency accused the CJN of “being in possession of funds which are fairly not attributable to his known, provable and legitimate source of income”.

    The opening of a dollar account in Standard Chartered Bank for the CJN by a lawyer, Joe Agi, with $30,000 was said to be unhealthy.

    The EFCC had accused Justice Onnoghen of being unable to account for curious deposits in his accounts.

    The anti-graft commission alleged that deposits had accumulated to $1,716, 000.

    The amounts in the said account were deposited as follows: $74,200 (2009); $291,800 (2010); $340,000 (2011); $625,000 (2012); $298,000 (2013); $40,000 (2015) and $47,000 (2016). The total was $1,716,000.

    The agency also accused Justice Onnoghen of depositing $1,716,000 in a United States dollar account operated with the Standard Chartered Bank in 2009, marked as exhibit P4 C, between 2009 and 2016.

    The petition said: “From the evidence on record, it is clear that the Respondent failed to declare all the accounts and funds in exhibit P4-P4D when he declared his 2014 asset in November 2016. Your lordship will observe that the Respondent only declared his salary account with the Union Bank exhibit P3 and failed to declare P4-P4D, which are the accounts that warehoused funds that are far above the Respondent’s known and provable lawful income.

    “My lords, by the provisions of Rule 1.2 of the Code of Conduct for Judicial Officers, it is clear that because members of the public expect a high standard of conduct from a judge, the Respondent is under the obligation to avoid impropriety  and the appearance of impropriety in all his activities both in his professional and private life. It is our submission my lords, that any conduct of the Respondent that give rise to the appearance of impropriety is a judicial misconduct and same is punishable under the Code of Conduct for Judicial Officers.

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    “It is our humble submission that the petitioner proved before this Honourable Panel that the Respondent was in possession of funds which are fairly not attributable to his known, proveable and legitimate source of income. The evidence shows that my lord earned a monthly salary in the sum of N750,819.87, which is about N9,000,000.00 per annum. My lords, as shown in exhibit P10A page 14 paragraph XXVI, the Respondent only earned the sum of N91,962,362.49 as salary between September 2005 and October 2016. It is also on record that the exhibit P3 is the salary account of my lord wherein his salaries are paid.

    “My lords, the evidence before this Honourable Committee shows clearly that the Respondent opened United State Dollars account with the Standard Chartered Bank in 2009, exhibit P4 C. This USD account was opened by Mr. Joe Agi SAN and the first cash depositor of United States of America dollars into the said account. We humbly refer my lords to the entry of the 29th day of June,2009.

    “Though the Respondent claimed that he was the one who gave the learned SAN, Joe Agi the $30,000.00 to deposit to exhibit P4C, the Respondent could not give any reasonable explanation as to the source of this money. My lords, the Respondent admitted under cross-examination that the USD was not his salary and that he only received dollars as estacodes which is meant for his official trips.

    “My lords, upon the opening of the USD account exhibit P4C, a lot of cash deposits in Dollars were made to this account. The evidence before my lords is that between 2009 and 2016 a lot of cash deposits were made into exhibit P4C.

    “My lords, from the evidence before this Honourable Panel, it is clear that these huge sums of money were not earned by the Respondent as his salaries and allowances. It is our humble submission that the burden of proving the legitimate source or origin of the sum of $1,716,000.00 lies heavily on the Respondent.”

    The amounts in the said account were deposited as follows: $74,200 (2009); $291,800 (2010); $340,000 (2011); $625,000 (2012); $298,000 (2013); $40,000 (2015) and $47,000 (2016). The total was $1,716,000.