Justice Ibrahim Buba of Federal High Court Lagos has sentence two men to 2 years imprisonment each for an attempt to smuggle $5.5 million out of the country through Murtala Mohammed Airport Lagos.
One of the convict Mr Rowland was arraigned by the EFCC on 22 October, 2015, for being in possession of cash in the sum of US$2,917,272 (Two Million, Nine Hundred and Seventeen Thousand, Two Hundred and Seventy Two United States Dollars) during
his outbound clearance for a journey to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.a cash he never declared,Justice Buba found him guilty of one count and ordered the $2,917,272 USD be forfieted to the government
While Mr Chibuike who only declared US$11,500 out of $2,506,998 USD in his possession during a outbound clearance to Addis Ababa was ordered to forfeit $2,495, 498 (two million, four hundred and ninety-five thousand, four hundred and ninety-eight US Dollars) not declared to the Customs Officials to the Federal government as he got two years jail
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