Pinnick, Others Charged With $8,400, N4bn Fraud

The President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick, and four different officers of the organization have been charged by the Federal Government.

Succinct News comprehends that the Five litigants were accused of supposed misappropriation of $8,400 said to have been paid by FIFA to the NFF.

Different respondents named for the situation are the Secretary of the NFF, Sunusi Mohammed; the principal Vice-President of the alliance, Seyi Akinwumi; the second Vice-President, Shehu Dikko, and an official individual from the league, Yusuff Fresh.

It was additionally asserted that the cash was paid by FIFA to the NFF as Nigeria's appearance expenses in the gathering phase of the Brazil 2014 World Cup.

The five respondents were likewise blamed for "moving insincerely and purposefully the aggregate of about N4bn" having a place with the NFF without the assent of the NFF.

The Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property driven by Okoi Obono-Obla, which established the case, likewise blamed the litigants for disappointment and disregard to pronounce their advantages.

The case, checked FHC/ABJ/CR/93/2019, recorded under the watchful eye of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday, contained 17 tallies.

The charge, recorded by SPIRPP for the benefit of the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, was marked by Dr Celsius Ukpong.

The indictment blamed the litigants for criminal connivance, criminal rupture of trust, robbery, criminal misappropriation in regard of their treatment of the $8,400 and N4bn having a place with the NFF.

The offenses were said to be in opposition to and culpable under different arrangements of the Penal Code (Cap 105) LFN.

Pinnick and his co-litigants were likewise blamed for disappointment and disregard to announce their advantages for the SPIRPP, in spite of and culpable under area 3(3)(a) of the Recovery of Public Property (Special Provisions) Act, 2004.

The indictment explicitly blamed Pinnick for selecting an organization he had enthusiasm for, Financial Derivatives Limited, as a money related expert to the NFF, in opposition to Section 5 of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act.

The SPIRPP said he was subject to be rebuffed under segments 1(2) and 10(1)(a) of the Recovery of Public Property (Special Provisions) Act, 2004.