The Federal Government
alleged on Monday that a Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Sylvester
Ngwuta, on October 9, 2016, tampered with evidence likely to incriminate him
while on bail – following his arrest by the operatives of the Department of
State Service on corruption allegations between October 7 and 8.
The Federal Government, in opposing the bail
application which Ngwuta’s lawyer, Chief Kanu Agabi (SAN), argued after his
client’s arraignment before the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday, stated
that the evidence the accused allegedly tampered with were a cash sum of N27m
and three exotic cars.
The prosecution alleged that after Ngwuta was
granted administrative bail by the DSS in Abuja on November 9, 2016, he made a
call to someone in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, to move the sum of N27m cash and
three exotic cars to some other locations in order to conceal them.
The cars, which were
said to have been recovered by the DSS from where they were moved to, were a
Hummer Jeep, a Wrangler Jeep, and a BMW 5 Series sedan.
The government, however, stated that the N27m
cash along with some vital documents moved in bags from the bathroom of the
Abakaliki home of the justice of the apex court was not recovered because it
had been “dissipated”.
Ngwuta, who appeared before a Federal High Court in Abuja,
sporting a grey suit with a blue shirt and a red tie, was arraigned before
Justice John Tsoho on 16 counts, including money laundering and offences
relating to obtaining of multiple passports.
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