The EFCC of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, Kano Regional Bureau, secured the belief of a Hauwa Abdullahi Ibrahim, as it brought undeclared payments of $1,154,900 (one million, one million, one million, one million, one five thousand, nine million, nine million), and entered Nigeria from 1 million saud saud andi andi Arabia.
She was sentenced to jail after “pleading guilty” to two charges of money laundering, sitting in front of Justice S. M Shuaibu of the Federal High Court in Kano.
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After her arrest, Nigerian Customs Department handed her over to the EFCC for further investigation and prosecution. The EFCC subsequently required Ibrahim to hear the case on two charges of money laundering under Section 3 (3) of the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act.
After her arraignment, she pleaded guilty to both of them.
In view of her defense, Musa Isah reviewed the facts of the case and the exhibition of tender, including the unannounced amount, and then prayed that the court would incur a corresponding conviction against her.
However, Judge Shuaibu allowed a proper Ibrahim to tell her story in court. The criminals revealed that she was contacted by a Nafiu in Saudi Arabia who allegedly turned to her assistance to carry a box from Saudi to Nigeria, and when she asked about the contents of the box, he allegedly told her that it was a date and a small amount of cash.
She allegedly accepted Nafiu’s words, and he accepted the box. She further said that Nafiu gave her a call from a specific woman who would collect the boxes from her upon arrival in Kano.
Ibrahim said when logging into Kano Airport that she called Nafiu to her phone number and the woman came and she handed the box to her.
However, after leaving the airport, the airport authorities recalled her international passport to clean up the box because she was the one who brought it to Nigeria.
Upon arrival, she was arrested and displayed to the contents of the box she was riding on.
She begged the court to avoid her because she didn’t understand the contents of the box and was deceived by the sender, who told her that the box contained only dates and a small amount of money.
