*The Management of Air Peace Limited, a Nigerian aviation firm, say the ongoing legal proceedings against Allen Onyema, Founder/CEO of the company, and Ejiro Eghagha, Chief of Finance and Administration, will not affect the safety, reliability, and daily operations of the indigenous airline

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The Management of Air Peace Limited, a Nigerian aviation firm, Sunday, October stated the ongoing legal proceedings against Allen Onyema, Founder/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company, and Ejiro Eghagha, Chief of Finance and Administration at Air Peace, in a United States (US) court, would not affect the safety, reliability, and daily operations of the airline.

It is noted the US Government has added more charges to the extant $20 million bank fraud case against Onyema, as the Nigerian businessman continues to elude trial in an American court, report said.

Despite his denial of any wrongdoing, the Founder of Air Peace is wanted in the American country over the bank fraud charges filed against him and a co-defendant at the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, in Atlanta, since 2019.

In increasing the fraud charges against Onyema, the US Attorney Office, Northern District of Georgia, said in a statement Friday, October 11 said: 鈥淥n 8 October 2024, they were (Onyema and Eghagha) both charged in a superseding indictment alleging an additional count of obstruction of justice and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice.鈥�

The US Attorney Office also stated Onyema is accused of 鈥渙bstruction of justice for submitting false documents to the government in an effort to end an investigation of him that resulted in earlier charges of bank fraud and money laundering.鈥�

The American prosecutors further purported the CEO of Air Peace submitted 鈥渇alse documents鈥� to the authorities in 2019, in an attempt to stop the investigation and unfreeze his bank accounts regarding the alleged $20 million bank fraud in the United States.