“That the respondent’s known and provable lawful income is far less than the properties sought to be forfeited to the federal government of Nigeria,” the lawyer alleged.
An operative of the EFCC, Sambo Mayana, also stated in an affidavit attached to the application, that the anti-graft agency investigated Aluko after receiving from Debo Adeniran, the Executive Chairman of the Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, “a damning intelligence report and a petition alleging fraud, lack of transparency and unethical conduct in the transfer of production rights in the oil mining leases against the respondent and his cronies.
“That there are suspicious financial transactions involving the 1st respondent, KAA and Atlantic Energy Holding Limited based in the British Virgin Island.
“That the company, in the course of three years, received large suspicious transfers from two sister companies, namely: Atlantic Energy Drilling Concept Limited and Atlantic Energy Brass Development Limited, based in Nigeria.”
After granting the forfeiture order, Justice Liman ordered the EFCC to publish it in a national newspaper.
He adjourned the matter till November 12 to allow anyone interested in the properties to appear before him to show cause why they should not be permanently forfeited to the government.
