PETER NWAOBOSHI V. FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA & ORS

EMMANUEL AKOMAYE AGIM, JSC (Delivering the Leading Judgment): On 25-7-2022, the applicant herein filed a Notice of Appeal against the judgment of the Court of Appeal delivered on 1-7-2022 in Appeal No. CA/LAG/CR/988/2021 setting aside his acquittal and discharge from the charge of commission of money laundering offences by the Federal High Court at Lagos in its Judgment delivered on 3-9-2021 in Charge No. FHC/L/117C/2018, and rather convicting him of committing the offence of money laundering contrary to S.15(2)(d) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 and sentencing him to imprisonment for seven years. The appeal was entered in this Court on 28-7-2022, when the record of the trial proceedings were compiled and transmitted here. The appellant filed an amended notice of the said appeal on 3-8-2022. The same was deemed filed by this Court on 22-9-2022. On 5-8- 2022, the appellant filed his brief of argument in the appeal. He filed an amended brief on 6-9-2022 which was deemed…