The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has finalised the confiscation of 20 landed properties worth over N3,007,000,000 belonging to "a senior military commander."
The EFCC's Head of Media, Wilson Uwujaren, did not name the senior official in a statement issued Monday.
He stated that the criminal assets were "managed via proxies such as the late General Aminu Maude and companies such as Atlasfield Integrated Services Nigeria Limited, Marhaba Events Place, Aflac Plastics, and Atlasfield Gas Plant Limited."
Justice N. E. Maha of the Federal High Court in Abuja granted the order while hearing the EFCC's Cosmos Ugwu and Musa Isah's motion.
In May 2020, the court ordered the properties' interim confiscation in response to an ex parte application alleging they were the proceeds of illegal activity.
The judge then evaluated the application in light of Section 17 of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006, more specifically its sub-sections 1 and 3.
Following that, the EFCC sent letters to anybody having an interest in the properties, requesting that they show cause why they should not be forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria.
Without objection, the court ordered the final confiscation of the assets located in Kano, Katsina, Calabar (Cross River), and Kaduna States.
They include fuel stations, event centres, and plazas, as well as block industries, a truck assembly plant, a polythene manufacturing plant, and a table water manufacturing plant.
A plot of land in Rake, Kano, adjacent to Dara Orthopedic Hospital (N300,000,000); 117 hectares of land in Adiabo, Oduapani Local Government Area, Calabar, with Certificate of Occupancy No. OD/23/2011 dated 21/2/2011. (N386,000,000).
Other Truck Assembly at Ring Road, Kano (N206,000,000); Marhaba Event Centre, Guda Abdullahi Road Farm Centre, Kano (N250, 000,000)