The chairman of the efcc, Adbulrasheed Bawa, was found guilty of contempt of court by an Abuja high court that was sitting in Maitama.
The anti-graft agency’s disregard for a previous court ruling led to the conviction of the efcc chairman on Tuesday.
The defendant was Air Vice Marshal Rufus Adeniyi Ojuawo, a former director of operations for the Nigerian Army Force (NAF), and the court had ordered the efcc to return his range rover and N40 million to him.
Ojuawo was charged by the efcc with two counts in 2016 in Nyanya before Justice Muawiyah Baba Idris of the High court of the FCT. He was charged with accepting N40 million from a man named Hima Aboubakar, along with a range rover sport (supercharged).