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ABUJA—Trial of a detained Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, over his alleged non-disclosure of his assets, resumed before the Federal High Court, in Abuja, yesterday, with a witness narrating how investigations exposed that the defendant received over N200 million through 10 different bank accounts.
The witness, Mr Ahmed Yero, who identified himself as a Chief Investigator with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, said the various accounts were tracked through the defendant’s Bank Verification Number, BVN.
He told the court that though a total of 12 bank accounts were traced to Kyari who hitherto headed the Police Intelligence Response Team, IRT, however, two of the accounts were found to be dormant.
Testifying as the ninth prosecution witness, PW-9, Mr Yero, told the court that he was on February 14, 2022, directed to lead a team from NDLEA’s Directorate of Assets & Financial Investigation, to look into assets owned by the defendant.
He told the court that in furtherance of the investigation, the defendant was asked to declare his assets.
According to the witness, though Kyari declared that he only had three bank accounts, however, through the BVN portal that was made available to the agency by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, “we discovered that he owned and operated 10 active bank accounts.”
The PW-9 told the court that the defendant operated different domiciliary accounts for Dollars, Euro and Pound Sterling.
“One of the accounts is a salary account from which the 1st defendant collected salaries and other allowances from the police.
“After we got all the bank statements, we analysed the documents to understand if there was anything that would warrant an explanation by the defendant.
“We firstly looked at the UBA account which he uses to collect salaries. We investigated the account for a period of 16 years, spanning from 2006 to 2022.”
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