Retired Air Vice Marshal Tony Omenyi has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment by a Federal High Court in Abuja for money laundering charges to the tune of N136million.

He was said to have received the huge sum of money from a contractor with the Nigerian Air Force, while he was a public officer.

Omenyi, a former Managing Director of Aeronautical Engineering and Technical Services Limited, a subsidiary company of NAF, received the money as kickbacks or bribe from SkyExperts Nigeria Limited, in 2014.

Delivering judgment on the three counts preferred against him, Justice Nnamdi Dimgba, sentenced him to seven years imprisonment on each of the three counts but ruled that the sentences should run concurrently.

The judge also ordered that the company, Huzee Nigeria Limited, through which Omenyi was said to have received the sum of N136million from the contractor, SkyExperts Nigeria Limited, be wound up by the Federal Government.

The court also ordered that the sum of N62million already recovered from him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) be forfeited to the Federal Government.