Operatives of intelligence service in a collaboration with men of anti-corruption agency in Nigeria on Monday evening, arrested Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina, in a town in Niger Republic.
A top intelligence officer said the arrest was made possible due to an existing mutual relationship and security agreement between the two neighbouring countries.
Maina, a former Chairman of the Pension
Reform Task Team (PRTT), is facing a 12-count money laundering charge
levelled against him and a firm by the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC).
EFCC, alleged that Maina, as Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task
Team, used the account of the firm for money laundering to the tune of
about N2 billion, part of which he used to acquire landed properties in
Abuja.
He, however, has not been attending trial since the September 29, 2020
proceedings, a development that prompted Justice Okon Abang of the
Federal High Court to order Senator Ali Ndume’s remand last Monday.
But the Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday granted bail to the Borno
South Senator, over his suretyship for Maina, believed to have jumped
bail.
Justice Abang, in a ruling, said he chose to grant the senator bail
based on his record of good behaviour before the court, notwithstanding
that the other grounds of his bail application failed.
The judge granted bail to the senator pending the hearing and
determination of Ndume’s appeal filed at the Court of Appeal to
challenge Monday’s order sending him to jail for his inability to
produce the fleeing Maina, reports PRNigeria.
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