incidentally owned the Money in the Briefcase. He also stated that anytime the Defendant was in London, he usually assisted him. Mr. Dariye had asked him to pay into his Bank Account the Sum of Eleven Thousand, Five Hundred Pounds (£ 11, 500) but he did not have the time to do so. He revealed to Mr. Peter Clark that the Defendant was a Politician and a Governor of a State in Nigeria. Mr. Clark then made certain enquiries with Barclays Bank, who informed him that the Defendant was their Customer but noted that his Account was being operated in a suspicious manner, and he was advised to obtain a Court Order to access the Accounts. Mr. Clark then realised he needed more information and therefore met with a Diplomat working in the Nigerian Embassy in London, Mr. Ayo Oki. This Diplomat informed him that Nigerian Laws forbade the Defendant from operating a Foreign Bank Account. This information supported his Application for a Court Order to gain access to the Defendant’s Bank Account with Barclays Bank. Aside of the Bank Statement received, there was also a Personal Customer Profile containing information supplied by the Defendant at the Account Opening. At the first Opening of the Account with Barclays in 1995, the information was that he was a Manager with the Benue Cement Company on a Yearly Salary of Five Hundred Thousand Pounds (£500, 000). In all, there were a total of Nine (9) Bank Accounts with Barclays, as well as a Barclays Credit Card, and all these Accounts were registered to the Apartment at Regent Plaza, with some being Dormant and some being High Interest Yielding Accounts, which confirmed the Balance of Eight Hundred and Sixteen Thousand Pounds (£816, 000). He noted from the Statement of Account, that Monies were transferred into the Account from Ebenezer Retnan Ventures’ Bank Account with the AllStates Trust Bank Plc. in Nigeria. There were also a number of Electronic Transfers directly from the Defendant Personally and from memory, he could recall that one of the Transfers came from Lion Bank. He further enquired about the repayment of Interest on the Credit Card and was informed that a Lady called Joyce Oyebanjo wrote Cheques from her Account every Month to pay-off the Barclays Card. He then asked Barclays Bank for details of her Bank Accounts, which were provided, as well as the Cheques she had written from NatWest Bank. He then contacted NatWest Bank, who confirmed Joyce Oyebanjo as their Customer, as well as the Defendant and his wife, Valentina Dariye. Upon the obtaining of a Court Order, NatWest Bank provided all the details and he discovered that Joyce Oyebanjo’s Account in October 2003 received over One Million Pounds (£1, 000, 000. 00) from Nigerian Companies, such as: - Al-Dawood, Dangote, and Summit Finance. Further investigations revealed that Joyce Oyebanjo was paying all the bills for the Regent Apartment, and School Fees in the Sum of Two Hundred and Seventeen Thousand Pounds (£217, 000) at Dean Close School in Cheltenham, a Private School, for three of his children’s education. Dean’s School was contacted and the School confirmed this fact. They also discovered that she had used the Sum of £165, 000 as deposit for the purchase of another Property for the Defendant at 18 Cambridge Square, London West. During the course of the interview with the Defendant and Joyce Oyebanjo, they had both stated that the Sale fell through. Since Nigeria and the United Kingdom were Signatories to the United Nations Convention, he required evidence regarding Ebenezer Retnan Venture’s Account from the Nigerian Authorities, and in March 2004, the Crown Prosecution Service sent a Letter seeking Nigeria’s assistance under Mutual Legal Assistance and in June of the Same Year, he came to Nigeria, where he met the Attorney General of the Federation, who appointed Officers of the State Security Service (SSS) and later Officers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to assist. The EFCC gave him a Copy of the 65