Ade Adesomoju, AbujaThe Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, will for the third time, on Tuesday, arraign a former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke (SAN), on amended money laundering charges involving about N400m. The EFCC is to rearraign Adoke alongside a businessman, Aliyu Abubakar, before the Federal High Court in Abuja on the same set of charges. EFCC’s lawyer, Bala Sanga, told the judge that the commission filed the amended charges on July 29. EFCC alleged in the charges that they committed the money laundering offences involving over N400m in Abuja in September 2013. The only count concerning Abubakar was that he allegedly made the payment of dollar equivalent of N300m to Adoke’s account in violation of the money laundering law.

Source: Punch August 03, 2020 15:11 UTC