The federal high court in Abuja has remanded Akintoye Akindele, chief executive officer (CEO) of Duport Midstream Company Limited, at the Kuje correctional centre.
On Tuesday, Akindele was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a four-count charge bordering on money laundering and contract fraud.
The anti-graft agency accused Akindele of allegedly collecting $35 million from the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) to build a 2,000 barrel-per-day refinery, jetty, gas plant, data centre, and tank farm at Okpoama community in Brass LGA of Bayelsa state.
The EFCC alleged that Akindele received the funds through the bank account of Atlantic International Refinery and Petrochemical Limited and funneled the monies into four of his companies and bureau de change outlets.
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The companies are Platform Capital Investment Partners, Duport Midstream Company Ltd., Puisance Afrique Dynamics Ltd., Adamantine Petrochemical & Refinery Ltd.
“That you, Akindele Akintoye, and Platform Capital Investment Partners Limited, between December 2020 and February 2021, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, indirectly retained the sum of $16,006,000 (Sixteen Million, Six Thousand United States Dollars), being part of the funds dishonestly converted from the money paid by the NCDMB to Atlantic International Refinery and Petrochemical Limited as investment, knowing the said sum constituted proceeds of unlawful activity, thereby committing an offence contrary to Section 15(2)(d) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 (as amended by Act No. 1 of 2012) and punishable under Section 15(3) of the same Act,” one of the counts reads.
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