Adelani Adepegba, AbujaSecurity agencies have been unable to locate a former chairman of the defunct Pension Reformed Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, standing trial on 12 counts of N2bn fraud and money laundering. Maina, who has reportedly gone underground, was also said to have cut off contact with all his associates and friends, one of his acquaintances confided in The PUNCH on Tuesday. Our correspondent gathered that Maina had missed over 10 scheduled trial sessions since September and had also been incommunicado to his surety, Senator Ali Ndume, the lawmaker representing Borno South. The judge had during the last court session on October 18 handed down a 21-day ultimatum to the lawmaker to produce Maina. Abang had also threatened that the senator could be detained should he fail to produce the defendant in court on November 18.

Source: Punch October 28, 2020 06:56 UTC