Dame Patience Jonathan, wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, will soon be a guest of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over the $15.6m traced to four other accounts linked to her.
This is just as detectives of the anti-graft agency visited the Skye Bank branch on Adeola Hopewell, Victoria Island, where the accounts were opened and obtained the documents containing her financial information.
Punch quoted sources as saying that the detectives had been able to establish a prima facie case of money laundering and forgery against Patience.
It will be recalled that as part of investigations into a former Special Adviser to the President on Domestic Affairs, Waripamowei Dudafa, the EFCC traced four company accounts to him all domiciled at Skye Bank.
The bank accounts of the four companies — Pluto Property and Investment Company Limited; Seagate Property Development and Investment Company Limited; Trans Ocean Property and Investment Company Limited; and Globus Integrated Service Limited — were said to have been opened with stolen identities.
A detective at the EFCC said, “After three months of investigation, I can confirm to you that we are set to invite Patience Jonathan. We obtained the files from the bank and we realised that those accounts with the $15m were opened with fake identity cards, including driving licences.
“We took the cards and went to the Federal Road Safety Corps to verify if the cards were authentic. We found out that the cards were fake. So, this is not just money laundering but a clear case of fraud. If they had nothing to hide, why did they go to this length?”
While the companies have pleaded guilty, Patience insists that the money belongs to her but claims she does not know the companies.
In an affidavit, one Sammie Somiari deposed to on behalf of Patience, Mrs. Jonathan claimed that Dudafa helped Patience to open the bank accounts in 2010.
However, EFCC investigations revealed that the accounts were opened between 2013 and 2014.
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*Dame Patience should provide proof on how she got these monies and let this thing die abeg.......If she says the money is hers and rightfully so,then provide proof to shame the EFCC,simple!
Ghen Ghen.... Lemme sit and watch as drama plays
ReplyDeleteShe is not above the law despite her status. Happy Sunday y'all.
DeleteStella seriously?????ur comment is a disappointment to pple who regard u honestly.with all these proof they have of fraud,u are still saying she should get proof and shame who again???? My God !!!
DeleteHow this woman go take speak english when they invite her oooool.
DeleteEFCC and Buhari combined do not have liver to pursue and probe MaryamAbacha who boasted openly that even Dangote can not meet up as houseboy for them. Dem no see, hear or even know that one, na MaPayshay dem follow Nigerians dey fool demselves as usual.
DeleteIf Buhari get liver to face " kwarapshion" BRING MARYAM out first. Dead man walking already building his own group of Private Refineries * Poof!
Anon 15:47, gees, where's your sense of humour. stella is just being cheeky/sarcastic... She is clearly not in support of what she "stole".. Linda Ikeji on the other hand has avoided the stories which shows she's in support of patience.
DeleteI said it before that this woman's lawyer is doing her more harm than good. See how she succeeded in complicating herself.
DeleteAbeg we don't want to know. They will pick and still release her after d questioning. What else???
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DeleteEFCC will never convict anybody simply because they don't work like professionas.she is taking them to court and she will surly win the case. The onus that this money was gotten illegally is on EFCC and not her. You can't ask her to do ur job for you,by asking her how she got the money,its ur duty(EFCC)to investigate and prove the money was stolen.its just like a police man sees you on the road driving a fine car,nice shoes and expensive phone,he stops you and the next thing he says ur under arrest,if you cant explain how you got the cash,he will arrest you but he can never win such a case in court,because he has no evidence linking you to a crime.I know hypocrites that can't explain how they got human hair and iPhone 7 will disagree.
ASHAWO WAS 1's A VIRGIN
Anon 13:54, you sound like someone that is not in Nigeria. How was the EFCC able to make Metuh and the rest beg on bended knees to return the money after all the noise they made initially?
DeleteAs it is now, they have facts that patience Obtained the said accounts with wrong Identities, the people she used their identities are alive and we're her domestic staff. That is already an advanced fraud facts. The rest is easy to prove. The Bank will give blueprints of where the money came from, or you expect them to reveal all the evidence to newsmen.
There are laws governing opening of bank accounts. Under no circumstance can you defend someone opening 5 accounts with different names, claiming she doesn't know them yet the money belongs to her. Only her will confess during cross examination.
They don't even have a good defence team, the Lawyer has even dug her grave by himself, what is remaining is for him to push her in. Endtime identity thief.
In developed countries, they will arrest a murderer for maybe traffic offence or minor assault charges and just buy time to build the murder case . As they are releasing you on the minor crime, they re arrest you and then put the person behind bars as long as he deserves. These people looted without believing Buhari will win, they covered no tracks. The evidence will be overwhelming. That was why Metuh attempted to eat his own evidence, he never knew they had such evidence.
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DeleteAnn:16:42 normally I don't reply people that are not up to 18yrs cos dey won't understand. I know ur above 18,u dint us abusive words,u we're only making your point.in the case of metuh,you we're not there when he said I did it he claimed he gave those statement on duress and it was not him that wanted to return money ,but his family. Do you know that he fell sick under EFCC detention? Mind you I'm not in support of anybody, im only saying we are humans and all humans most be guarded by low.with out the law we are nothing and why most it be only her? There is no rich man or woman in Nigeria today that dint still, if younmostbgo for her go for all, or else the the ones left will continue and spoil the system again.
ASHAWO WAS 1's A VIRGIN.
Fantastically kwarupt country. So because PDP is involved,the lyrics of $15m scandal has refused to end. Tufiakwa
ReplyDeleteShe is not PDP
DeleteIt's no longer $31m dollars ba. Una don come down. Issorai
DeleteExactly stella
ReplyDeletePatience shld have denied the money in the first place,the way others deny theirs
Na greed they worry the woman. You don't know the owners of the account but the money belongs to you. Did they write her name on the money?
DeleteShe should have just left the money for them. She still has billions in other banks. Greedy woman.
And the plot thickens, hmm.
ReplyDeleteSeriously thickens.
DeleteMake dem leave dis fat woman na, EFCC wam frustrate am make lean.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to hear the grammar and bombshells she will drop during her questioning.
ReplyDeleteLMAO
DeleteShe cannot provide proof Stella....it was in the news yesterday that the money belong to her late mom. Moreover, if the account was open with fake identity, isn't that unlawful already?
ReplyDeleteSTELLA, PLEASE WATCH SUNRISE DAILY ON CHANNELS NEWS(FRIDAY MORNING EPISODE) FOR THE,EXPLANATION. ITS IN FOUR PARTS. BRING IT HERE AND LETS AIR OUR VIEWS. IT WAS ANCHORED BY MAOPE
ReplyDeleteShe is got no proof to shame the EFCC instead she is to be shamed here, she is fraudulent, dubious and a thief at that. Because even if she has stolen and had been helping the poor masses out of it, I would have supported her. Imagine the huge sum of money a just a single person is having to herself why am here crying for just half a million to open a trade and when you cry out to them they can never ever help out. God will start disgracing all of them
ReplyDeleteI will know they are serious about this anti corruption war on the day they investigate Tinubu. Nobody is saying Patience is innocent, but the investigations are selective and as such, it's not just.
DeletePick a struggle madam,she ddnt throw you into your fate. Even if she shared it as you said it won't get you with this your "give me to support you attutude" she was noting and so are you, she changed her destiny herself ,change yours and stop moaning .
DeletePick a struggle madam,she ddnt throw you into your fate. Even if she shared it as you said it won't get you with this your "give me to support you attitude" she was noting and so are you, she changed her destiny herself ,change yours and stop moaning .
DeleteShe changed her destiny by stealing,so steal too.lol humans!!!
DeleteAnon did she steal ur money?oh whose money did she steal? Poverty mentality,wife of ex deputy governor,wife of ex governor,wife of ex vice president,wife or ex president,and u expect her to be poor? If I were I her possition,i would av made more than that,with all the global connections,u poor little girl
DeleteShe should have kept quite
ReplyDeleteThe only thing I see here is the clown custome she's wearing.
ReplyDeleteWho ridiculed this woman like that?
Was she being dressed by a northern?
It's like these people don't want peace in this country...
ReplyDeleteNothing should happen to mama peace!...I have said my own!...
Idiot
DeleteAna ghoheri. What will happen if she's jailed? You see a clear case of looting, fraud and money and you're here yarning dust. Mechie onu gi ka anyi nu ife biko.
DeleteThank God say na your people dey reply you,were alaso.
DeleteChloroquine or what u call it.. You are very naïve, you think people like trouble? You will be suprised that those she even helped will keep away, if you know anything about power and relevance, you would know that once you no longer in power, no 1 respects you anymore. Only a few are revered after they vacate seat of power, eg, obasanjo, Tinubu, Babangida etc, because they empowered soooo many. Samething people like you said during last presidential election, "if Jonathan loses, nigeria will not know peace".. You think anyone is ready to lose their assets? The people that you are waiting for to cause trouble have a lot at stake. All man for himself. This case with Patience how ever, was poorly ochestrated from the get go, that SSA should be flogged. Too many errors. That's why others before the jonathans haven't been caught cos they were maticulate in their laundering scheme. She will just be collateral damage and a scape goat.
DeleteI know that Buhari is persecuting this innocent woman simply bcos she allegedy called him brain dead during the campaign. Being the wife of a former president, she is not expected to be a poor woman.
ReplyDeleteExactly!...
DeleteAgreed she's not expected to be poor but 6billion. Come on that's a ridiculous amount of money no matter the kind if business you are into,that's absurd ,besides all she need to do is prove how the money was made.is that simple.
DeleteThat's all I ve been saying o. Somebody whose husband was a a speaker of tate house,then a governor!then a vice president,then a president,was she expected to be penniless? For crying out loud only bribery from those seeking favour from the president when he was in power can amount to that money. there re so many government official in power now that have more than that amount in their accounts but because they av not stepped on toes they re enjoying immunity should begin sanitation in their homes.
DeleteYes she shouldn't be poor, but not a billionaire in dollars without having a legitimate source of those funds, like owning multi-billion Naira businesses. She has declared none publicly so it raises questions. The mere fact that those accounts were opened fraudulently raises sooooo many red flags. If they were all in her name, trust me, the case would have died down as quicly as it started, after all she's not the 1st former 1st lady. Too many school boy errors with those accounts.
DeleteThis "anonymous 12:29" person has been repeating this same line of thought on every single post that concerns Mrs Jonathan.
DeleteYes, your thought is as good as mine. You guessed right who this is. Ehehe
She has proof already
ReplyDeleteAnd she will tell them word for word how she made the monies
Wait on it y'all.
Even you? Chichi, one can ignore Linda but I expected more cerebral thinking from you. How can you insist you have money in some other peoples account, claim not to know them but use debit cards with their names on them
DeleteHmmmm! This is one woman the EFCC and Nigerian government should be careful in dealing with. Mama Patience is a sly and highly unpredictable lady. I believe she has and knows the dirty secrets of these so called 'high and mighty' change agents. I repeat it, no past or present leader in this country of ours is innocent of corruption and social vices. All this partisan witchhunting is an unnecessary distraction to the big problems currently enslaving our nation. By the way, what has become of the monies recovered from the past looters? What will be the case of known looters like our past governor of Rivers state - Chibuike Amaechi? When will such perpetrators in the APCshit camp be brought to book. But I guess these are all questions for the gods. I rest my case!
ReplyDeleteGbam!...
DeleteCorrect person!...
Exactly. Partisan indeed.
DeleteWhere is the like button for this comment
DeleteHer husband had his chance to probe those that looted before his tenure and during his tenure but regarded it as mere stealing so let a serious president that see this as corruption deal with them.
DeleteAbegyyy she should spill if she has any incriminating info about any government official. They'll all go down. Nobody should be able to threaten anyone with having any info without spilling
DeletePlease,what was Patience doing and what is she still doing that will make her own such amount of money? Nawa for this country sha.
ReplyDeleteWhat is Aisha Vuharia doing to make her own several designers bags,golds,expensive wrist watches and flying a common makeup artist to the US?...
DeleteDesigner bags that even I can afford ,anyone who earns salary can do these things u just listed,I fly my family to US every summer on my pay,pls how does that equate to $15m.I do not like insulting pple on this blog ,I hate d trend but the truth is u need to check in to a hospital. In the bid to become popular on this blog,u bring curses and shame to urself and ur family. Words that pple tell u count,they insult ur family and kids.I pray they don't get affected because of ur insanity. That a man lives with u amazes me.
DeleteYou are just so ignorant, you have know idea how many gifts government officials get, even their SAs' and PAs', some are even diverted by their aides, Rolexes, top of the range mobile phones, shoes, name it.
DeleteNot to now talk of a 1st lady. Are you aware patience was collecting as much as $100k USD as access fee to see her president husband? But that shouldn't now amount to $20m USD in just one bank. So much goes on in power that you will weep at your misfortune in life.
why don't they do same to buhari for ruling a country without a WAEC certificate. RUBBISH COUNTRY!!!
ReplyDeleteAsk me oh!...
DeleteWith a fake result too!,,,
Tueh!...
Mama peace Mama Peace lol. Ish is getting really serious
ReplyDeleteNobody is asking Mrs Abacha how she got the money to open the biggest gold shop in Dubai!..
ReplyDeleteAll these years that they've been repatriating abacha's loot, did you say they should leave them alone? Did you hear any northerners asking anybody to leave abachas loot alone?
DeleteYou can call others slaves but in reality you're the real slave. Either emancipate yourself or kill yourself and save your children from a life of slavery
I know all this is becos she called Buhari "brain-dead".buhari never forgives and never forgets.#smallmind
ReplyDeletethis woman will always want to put her husband in trouble, nawa for her ooooo
ReplyDeleteNoted!
ReplyDeletePoint of correction. Efcc never went after patience Jonathan. She was the one that went after them. Boldly claiming that the monies in acount names different from her own belongs to her & even going ahead to sue them.
ReplyDeleteIf I am the judge , I will release the monies to those domestic servants
Uhm uhm
DeletePoint of correction. Efcc never went after patience Jonathan. She was the one that went after them. Boldly claiming that the monies in acount names different from her own belongs to her & even going ahead to sue them.
ReplyDeleteIf I am the judge , I will release the monies to those domestic servants
It has neva happened before, this is just witch hunting. They should leave the woman alone and face what they are suppose to do. just tired of all dis APC drama
ReplyDeleteMr presido seriously looking for a way to probe jona and pashe
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