Justice Abimbola Awogboro of a Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday, convicted popular Nigerian cross dresser, Idris Okuneye also called “Bobrisky” of Naira abuse.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) charged Bobrisky with six counts of abuse and money laundering.
The court however, reserved sentence until April 9 and ordered that he remained in custody of the EFCC till then.
Bobrisky was arrested on Thursday by the anti-graft agency in connection with the offence.
When the case was called, the prosecutor, Mr Suleiman informed the court that following a discussion, the defendant agreed to plead guilty to the charge.
He consequently, applied for counts five and six to be struck out, leaving counts one to four.
The court accordingly struck out counts five and six.
When the remaining counts was read to the defendant, he pleaded guilty.
Following his plea, the prosecutor called on the investigating police officer to give a brief review of the case as its prosecution witness.
The witness, Mr Bolaji Temitope, an assistant suprintendant of the EFCC, said that during investigation, the team came about a video where the defendant was seen mutilating the Naira notes.
He said that the videos were downloaded and copied on a Compact Disc (CD) while a letter of invitation was sent to the defendant.
According to him, the defendant honoured the invitation and when he arrived the EFCC office, he was cautioned and then he volunteered a statement.
The court consequently, found the defendant guilty of the offence as charged and accordingly convicted him.
According to the charge, he was said to have committed the offence on March 24, at Circle Mall, Jakande in the Lekki area of Lagos.
Meanwhile, in the struck out counts, the EFCC had said that the defendant trading under the name and style of BobExpress between Sept. 1, 2021 and April 4, also failed to submit to the Special Control Unit Against Money Laundering , a declaration of the activities of his company.
According to the EFCC, within the said period, the sum of N128 million was paid into the company’s account.
It had said that within same period the defendant failed to submit a declaration to the unit, of his company, where the sum of N53 million was paid.
The offences contravene the provisions of sections 21(1) Central Bank Act 2007, and 19 Money Laundering Act 2022.