Federal High Court in Lagos has sent a serving senator in Nigeria, Orji Kalu to prison having been found guilty of fraud involving N7. 2 billion.
Orji Kalu, who is one time Governor of Abia State, was also found guilty of money laundering and is to spend 12 years in prison.
He was convicted today, December 5 on all the 39 counts preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Kalu was charged alongside a former Commissioner for Finance, in the state, Jones Udeogo, and his company, Slok Nig. Ltd.
While Kalu and his company were found guilty of all the 39 counts, Udeogo was convicted on 34 counts and sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment.
The court ordered that the Slok Nig. Ltd. Should be wound up and its assets forfeited to the Federal Government.
