Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has told a Federal High Court that Ismail Mustapha, a.k.a Mompha, is disguising and still has a case to answer.
This came after Mompha’s counsel urged the court to uphold his client’s no-case submission.
Mompha alongside his company, Ismalob Ventures is currently standing trial over an alleged N32.9 billion internet fraud.
At the resumed sitting today, Mompha, through his lawyer, Gbenga Oyewole, SAN, filed a no-case submission, after the prosecution had closed its case at the last sitting.
Oyewole, in urging the court to uphold his client’s no-case submission, said the prosecution had failed to link his client to any offence on all the counts of the charge.
However, the prosecution counsel, S. I. Sulaiman, in his response, urged the court to dismiss Mompha’s no-case submission application, which was adopted before the court.
In urging the court to dismiss Mompha’s application, Sulaiman said the prosecution had been able to link the defendant to the alleged offences.
This, he said, was done through the evidence adduced and exhibits tendered by the 10 prosecution witnesses.
He, therefore, urged the court to dismiss the application and order the defendant to open his defence.
After listening to both parties, Justice Liman adjourned the matter till 18 November for ruling on the defendant’s no-case submission.
The Dubai-based Nigerian businessman, recently shared his regret of returning to Nigeria which he described as a “disaster”.
In a post he shared via his Instastory, Mompha who has an ongoing court case centered on money laundering expressed hope of all his challenges becoming a thing of the past. Sharing a picture of himself, he wrote;
“2 years ago when you don’t knw coming to ur country will be a disaster. Surely it will all come to past”
