EFCC knows I didn’t spend Kwara election funds – Belgore SAN | Nairalaw

Hearings continued in the N450m money laundering case against
Muhammad Dele Belgore (SAN) on Friday, with the senior lawyer
saying he made full accounts to the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) how the fund released for the 2015 PDP
presidential election campaign in Kwara State was spent.

Giving testimony in the 450m money laundering case against him
and Professor Abubakar Suleiman, Belgore said he had supplied to
the anti-graft agency all the information about who got what share
of the money and the purpose it was meant for “as a matter of
helping their investigations”.

He reiterated that the funds were meant to prosecute the
People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign in Kwara
State. He said at no time did the EFCC interview any of the people
he had mentioned as having disbursed the money on the authority of
the party, asserting that the claim that he disbursed any money is
not factual.

“I deny the charges/counts in their entireties. The information
that I gave to PW 2 (EFCC prosecutor) in my statement as to those
who took possession, disbursed, and used the N450m which is the
subject of these charges, was never pursued by PW 2,” Belgore said
while being cross-examined by his counsel Ebun Sofunde (SAN).

“(The PW2) had information of who took the money and what it was
used for and he did nothing about it. So I totally denied count one
to nine. I told EFCC these persons were the ones who disbursed
them. EFCC never interviewed any of these persons to confirm
whether I ever gave them any money. My exhibit did state the names
of those who collected the money from the bank but I never said I
disbursed.” Further hearings in the case have been adjourned to May
6.