Money laundering: EFCC re-arraigns ex-AGF, Mohammed Adoke

Former Attorney General of the Federation on Thursday appeared in court alongside one Aliyu Abubakar, before Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja.

Adoke is currently facing a seven-count charge.

His re-arraignment was in connection with alleged money laundering offences involving over N400m in Abuja in September 2013.

Mohammed is alleged of cornering dollar equivalent of N300m from Abubakar, making payment of N367,318,800 to one Usman Mohammed Bello, and allegedly using the sum of N300m, alleged to be proceeds of corrupt practices, in contradiction of provisions of the Money Laundering Prohibition Act 2011.

The erstwhile AGF, was also said to have made “structured cash payments amounting to N80m and N50m, into his Unity Bank account respectively.