{"id":4356,"date":"2025-01-20T12:05:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T12:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/?p=4356"},"modified":"2025-01-20T12:06:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T12:06:54","slug":"4356","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/4356\/","title":{"rendered":"Drama in court as Oba Otudeko&#8217;s trial begins, counsel protests \u20a612.3bn fraud allegation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4357\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/download-7-1-300x271.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/download-7-1-300x271.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/download-7-1.jpeg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Otudeko<\/p>\n<p>By Publisher<\/p>\n<p>Kindly share:<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Bode Olanipekun, SAN, the legal counsel for the Chairman of the Honeywell Group, Oba Otudeko, on Monday protested against\u00a0 the allegations of \u20a612.3 billion fraud against his client.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to him, he protested because the charges had not been formally served on Otudeko and his two co-defendants.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Olanipekun the counsel for all the three defendants, including Olabisi Onasanya,\u00a0 the former Managing Director of First Bank Plc., and a former Honeywell board member, in\u00a0the case.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has dragged\u00a0 the accused to court to face a 13-count charge against trio alongside<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>a company called Anchorage Leisure Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>The EFCC claims that the defendants acquired the \u20a612.3 billion\u00a0fraudulently.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Otudeko By Publisher Kindly share: Bode Olanipekun, SAN, the legal counsel for the Chairman of the Honeywell Group, Oba Otudeko,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,294,2],"tags":[1071,1070,1049],"class_list":["post-4356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-entertainment-showbiz","category-news","tag-first-bank-nigeria","tag-honeywell-group","tag-oba-otudeko"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - 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