Court orders permanent forfeiture of N280.5m linked to Invictus Obi - Daily Post Nigeria

The companies are Invictus Oil and Gas Ltd. and Invictus Investment Ltd.Justice Rilwan Aikawa made the forfeiture order in Lagos following a motion for final forfeiture filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission .The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the court had on Oct. 9, granted an application for interim forfeiture of the sum and ordered EFCC to publish the order to enable interested parties to appear and show cause.

He then urged the court to grant the application for final forfeiture, saying that there was no opposition to it. He held that the court was satisfied that the requirements of the Advanced Fee Fraud and other Related Offences Act had been complied with. In an affidavit deposed to by its investigator, Mr Ariyo Muritala, the EFCC said that it assigned Muritala and some others to investigate a request for information on Okeke and three others by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Legal Attache, U.S. Consulate-General.

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