Hearing in the Central Bank of Nigeria N8bn mutilated
currency fraud suit continued at the Federal High Court, Ibadan on Wednesday as
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission told the court that one of the
accused persons, Mr. Ayodeji Alase, had N134m in one of his bank accounts.
The EFCC told the trial judge, Justice A.O. Faaji, that
Alase, a primary six certificate holder, started work at First Bank as a guard
before he was promoted to the position of a cash assistant.
The lead prosecution counsel for the EFCC, Mr. Rotimi Jacob
(SAN), also told the court that the accused had property worth hundreds of
millions of naira.
