EFCC brings ex-Anambra Governor, Obiano, to court for N4bn fraud case

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has charged former Anambra State governor Willie Obiano with fraud and embezzlement totaling N4 billion in front of the Federal High Court in Abuja.

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Accompanied by EFCC officials, the former governor came in a white bus.

Recall that in 2022, Obiano was detained at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport while attempting to take a flight overseas, just hours after he turned over power as governor to his successor, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo.

The anti-graft bureau then added him to its watchlist. It is suspected that he transferred state cash to his account.

“That you, Chief Willie Maduabuchi Obiano, while serving as the executive governor of Anambra State of Nigeria between March 2014 and March 2022, sometime between August 9th, 2017 and March 4th, 2020 in Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, indirectly transferred the sum of N261,268,585.00 only from the Anambra State Government Security Vote Account No: 5030050875 domiciled in Fidelity Bank Plc into the Fidelity Bank Plc Account No: 5600062873 belonging to Easy Diamond Integrated Link (an entity that had no business relationship with the Anambra State Government), which funds were disbursed for purposes unrelated / unconnected with the security affairs of Anambra State, which you reasoned The money was obtained by your illicit activity, specifically theft and corruption, and as a result, you committed a crime that was punishable by Section 15(3) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 (as amended) in 2012 and in violation of Section 15(2)(b) of the same Act.