Court jails man one month for non-declaration of $40,000

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A Federal High in Lagos has found one Igboezue Emeka guilty of money laundering and sentenced him to one month in prison.

On February 12, 2025, officers from the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) apprehended the convicted individual at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos, for making false financial declarations totaling $40,000 (fourty thousand US dollars).

This was announced on Friday by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, or EFCC, in a post on its X handle.

According to the EFCC, the NCS turned him over to its Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 office that same day for additional inquiries and legal action.

As a result, on Friday, April 4, 2025, he was charged on a single count of money laundering charges before Justice A.O. Owoeye of the Federal High court in Lagos.

When the charge was read to him, he entered a guilty plea.

After he entered a guilty plea, Michael Olayemi, an EFCC agent, was called by prosecution attorney Nnaemeka Omewa to go over the case’s facts.

Olayemi informed the court of the circumstances that resulted in the defendant’s inquiry.

Following that, Omewa attempted to tender the defendant’s statement together with the money that was taken from him.

The documents were marked as exhibits by the judge after they were admitted.

Igboezue was subsequently found guilty by Justice Owoeye and given a one-month jail sentence, which took effect on the day of his arrest on February 12, 2025.

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