JOSEPH EYO EKANEM, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The appellant was arraigned before the Federal High Court, Lagos Judicial Division (the trial Court) coram; Anka, J., on a two-count charge of conspiracy to commit an offence and failure to declare the sum of $102,885 to the officers and men of the Nigerian Customs Service contrary to the provisions of Section 2(3) and Section 18 respectively of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 (as amended by Act No 1 of 2012). He is charged along with two other persons in respect of the count on conspiracy and alone in respect of the substantive offence.
The trial of the appellant and his co-accused persons commenced on 25/4/2016 presumably after they pleaded not guilty to the charge. The prosecution called two witnesses. In the course of the evidence-in-chief of the second witness for the prosecution, Hakeem Lasisi (erroneously described as PW1 by the trial Court) the prosecution sought to tender through him several documents inclu…