In a big growth within the trial of Ismaila Mustapha, popularly often called Mompha and his firm, Ismalob World Funding Restricted, the Ikeja Particular Offences Courtroom has admitted an iPhone allegedly utilized in fraudulent actions as proof.
The Presiding Decide, Justice Mojisola Dada, dominated in favour of the prosecution through the listening to of the case yesterday, regardless of objections from the defence.
Mompha and his firm, are going through an eight-count introduced in opposition to them by the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC).
The fees embrace conspiracy to launder funds obtained by means of illegal actions, retention of proceeds of crime, failure to reveal property and possession of paperwork containing false pretences.
On the resumed listening to, EFCC counsel, Suleiman Suleiman, offered testimony from Detective Idi Musa (Prosecution Witness 6), who claimed that the recovered iPhone was used for fraudulent actions.
In accordance with the prosecution, forensic evaluation performed with the help of the FBI revealed incriminating paperwork linked to the machine. These paperwork, beforehand tendered as proof, had been stated to have been extracted through the investigation.
The iPhone was marked as Exhibit P7 after Justice Dada upheld the prosecution’s arguments and overruled objections raised by Mompha’s counsel, Ademola Adefolaju. Adefolaju had argued that the prosecution failed to determine a correct basis for admitting the iPhone as proof, urging the courtroom to reject it.
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