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N136m Fraud: AVM Tony Omenyi Jailed 7 Years

Matilda Omonaiye/

A Federal High Court in Abuja today sentenced to seven years imprisonment a retired Air Vice Marshal, Tony Omenyi, on money laundering charges involving the sum of N136million which he allegedly received from a contractor with the Nigerian Air Force, while he was a public officer.

The convict, a former Managing Director of Aeronautical Engineering and Technical Services Limited, a subsidiary company of NAF, received the money as kickbacks or bribe from SkyExperts Nigeria Limited, in 2014.

Delivering judgment on the three counts preferred against the convict, Justice Nnamdi Dimgba, sentenced him to seven years imprisonment on each of the three counts but ruled that the sentences should run concurrently.

The judge also ordered that the company, Huzee Nigeria Limited, through which the convict allegedly received the sum of N136million from the contractor, SkyExperts Nigeria Limited, be wound up by the Federal Government.

The Court also ordered that the sum of N62million already recovered from the convicts by the EFCC be forfeited to the Federal Government.

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