Court discharges Mompha, strikes out N6bn money laundering charges

An Ikeja Special Offences Court has discharged social media personality Ismaila Mustapha, popularly known as Mompha, and struck out all eight counts of alleged money laundering involving about N6 billion filed against him. Delivering her ruling on Tuesday, Justice Mojisola Dada held that the continued prosecution of the case amounted to an abuse of court process, noting that a similar matter was already pending before the Federal High Court in Lagos. The judge described the EFCC's decision to pursue the cases in separate courts as forum shopping and consequently struck out all eight charges against Mompha, discharging him. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had arraigned Mompha ...