The four companies accused of money laundering, alongside a former Special Adviser on Domestic Affairs to former President Jonathan, Waripamo Dudafa, and two others have pleaded guilty to the offence.
The companies submitted a guilty plea for conspiring with Dudafa and the two others to launder a sum of $15, 591,700 before a Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday.
The companies are: Pluto Property and Investment Company Limited; Seagate Property Development & Investment Co. Limited; Trans Ocean Property and Investment Company Limited; and Avalon Global Property Development Company Limited.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has since frozen the $15.6m found in the four companies’ accounts in Skye Bank.
But wife of ex-President Jonathan, Patience, has sued the EFCC and Skye Bank, laying claims to the money.
She had also claimed that the money was for her medical treatment abroad.
