A Federal High Court in Abuja has sentenced retired Air Vice Marshal,
Tony Omenyi, to seven years imprisonment for money laundering charges
to the sum of N136 million which he was said to have received from a
contractor with the Nigerian Air Force, while he was a public officer.
The convict, a former Managing Director of Aeronautical Engineering
and Technical Services Limited, a subsidiary company of the Nigerian Air
Force, received the money as kickbacks or bribe from Sky Experts
Nigeria Limited in 2014.
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sentenced Omenyi on the three counts preferred against him by EFCC. He
sentenced the convict to seven years imprisonment on each of the three
counts but ruled that the sentences should run concurrently.
The judge ordered that a company Huzee Nigeria Limited through which
the convict was said to have received the bribe for the contract should
be wound up by the Federal Government. He also ordered that the sum of
N62 million recovered from Omenyi by the EFCC be forfeited to the
Federal Government.