The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has found out that Captain Warredi Enisuoh, who works for Tompolo, is being looked into.
However, the organisation disputed that his incarceration had anything to do with oil pipeline security or his position as Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited’s Head of Operations (TSSNL).
Tompolo, whose real name is Government Ekpemupolo, is the owner of the business.
In 2022, the government gave the former leader of a group of militants a N48 billion security contract.
Enisuoh is under investigation for alleged money laundering, according to a statement made on Monday by EFCC Head of Media Wilson Uwujaren.
The “criminal dissipation of cash in an account owned by him” is at issue in this case.
Enisuoh and Patrick Akpobolokemi, the former director general of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), are also testifying in court, according to Uwujaren.
The pair is charged with “fraudulent conversion of different quantities of money” that belong to NIMASA.
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“Over $420,000, alleged profits of illegal operations, was tracked to an account owned by him during that investigation,” Uwujaren revealed.
Although Enisuoh in 2018 successfully got a Court of Appeal judgement to lift the freeze, the EFCC claimed that it had previously acquired a court order to freeze the account and keep the funds.
The Court of Appeal did not rule in Enisouh’s favour by concluding that the funds in question were not the fruits of illegal activity.
The committee recalls getting information in May 2018 that the captain spent the money thought to be the results of his “illegal operations” in three days.
Enisouh allegedly remained on the EFCC watchlist until his arrest on January 19, 2023, according to the EFCC.
“A remand notice was properly issued to detain him in custody until the investigation was finished.”
The statement continued, “He has already repaid $100,000 to the account and is working with the inquiry.”
