A former staff of the
defunct All States Trust Bank, Adonye Roberts, on June 17, 2016 told a Federal
Capital Territory, FCT, High Court, Gudu, Abuja, that a former governor of
Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, illegally operated an account with the bank in
the name of Ebenezer Retnan Ventures, ERV, with the aim of concealing his
identity as the owner of the account.
Dariye is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission, EFCC, before Justice Adebukola Banjoko, on a 23-count charge
bordering on money laundering and diversion of funds.
He is alleged to have siphoned the state’s ecological fund
to the tune of N1.16 billion, diverting part of it to ERV – an unregistered
company run by him and in whose name he maintained a “private banking” account
with ASTB.
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