EFCC Files Fresh 50 Counts Of Fraud Against Fmr Gov. Of Bayelsa Sylv.

Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission has again filed fresh
corruption charges against former
governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva,
before a the Federal High Court,
Abuja.EFCC’s Head, Media and Publicity,
Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, said in a statement
that the fresh 50 counts of corruption
were filed on Friday.This came two days
after Justice Ahmed Mohammed dismissed
the one of two fraud cases instituted by
the anti-graft agency against Sylva.
Justice Mohammed had held that the case
constituted an abuse of court
process.Earlier on June 1, 2015, Justice
Evoh Chukwu (also of the Federal High
Court, Abuja, struck out the other case
against Sylva following EFCC’s application
for the withdrawal of the case.
In the fresh 50 counts filed on Friday,
Sylva is charged alongside Francis
Okokuro, Gbenga Balogun, and Samuel
Ogbuku,.

They are accused of using three
companies – Marlin Maritime Limited, Eat
Catering Services Limited, and Haloween-
Blue Construction and Logistics Limitd – to
move about N19.2bn from Bayelsa State
coffers between 2009 and 2012, under
false pretences of using the withdrawn
money to augment salaries of the state
government workers.