EFCC Arraigns Maina, Son On 12 Count Charges

The Economic Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today arraigned  Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman, Pension Reform Task Team, and son at the Federal High Court, Abuja.

 The anti-graft agency is arraigning the former pension task team chairman on a 12-count bordering on “money laundering, operating fictitious bank accounts and fraud.”

 Maina’s son, Faisal, is also being arraigned in the same court on a separate but similar charge.

At Court 6, 2nd Floor of the building, where Justice Okon Abang will be adjudicating, it was filled with a crowd of lawyers and people.

The case was, however, yet to be mentioned as at the time of filing the report at 10:30 am.

The development is coming after Folashade Ogunbanjo, a judge, ordered the forfeiture of 23 property linked to him.

The judge gave the order following an ex parte motion filed by the EFCC

EFCC’s motion was supported by a 30-paragraph affidavit which is brought pursuant to section 17 of Anti-money Laundering Act.

Maina is accused of being involved in pension fraud running into over N100 billion.

The Federal Civil Service Commission dismissed him in 2013 for “absconding from duty” but he returned to the country in 2017 and was reinstated as a director in the interior ministry.

Following the outrage, President Muhammadu Buhari then ordered his dismissal and demanded a probe of his recall.

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