The former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Taskforce Team, Abulrasheed Maina, who is facing money laundering charges, on Thursday, collapsed before trial Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in Abuja.
Maina slumped down shortly after the court resumed proceedings in the 12-count charge the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, preferred against him and his firm, Common Input Property and Investment Limited.
Maina had on Wednesday after the EFCC shut its case with nine observers, tied down consent of the court to enter a no-argument accommodation to the charge against him.
In any case, when the case was approached Thursday, Maina's legal advisor, Mr. Anayo Adibe, told the court that his customer would not have the option to continue with his application.
Withstand said he couldn't set up the no-case-accommodation attributable to the way that he was not profited with records of procedures of the court in the issue.
The protection legal advisor was going to make further accommodation when his customer, Maina, drooped alongside the dock where the court allowed him to sit.
A few attorneys and authorities of the Nigerian Correctional Service immediately raced to his guide, an improvement that constrained preliminary Justice Abang to suspend sitting.
EFCC had in the charge stamped FHC/ABJ/CR/256/2019, claimed that Maina utilized a ledger that was worked by his firm and washed assets to the tune of about N2billion, part of which he used to obtain landed properties in Abuja.
It told the court that the Defendant utilized imaginary names to open and work different financial balances, just as enrolled his family members that were brokers to work counterfeit ledgers through which illegal assets were diverted.
The Prosecution advised the court that as opposed to monetary guidelines, the banks, opened fake records for the Defendant, without directing due determination to learn the genuine personalities of the proprietors.
It told the court that a portion of the false names Maina used to work the records in an offer to cover his actual character, included Aliyu Nafisatu and Dr. Abdullahi A. Fisal.
In check three of the charge, EFCC claimed that the Defendant had at some point in 2014, claimed the amount of N171.91million that was paid into one of the records he worked with UBA.
He was in check four, claimed to have claimed $360, 588.27, realizing that equivalent was continues of an unlawful movement.
Maina was asserted to have in 2012, opened record number 4510002782 with his pseudo name, Dr. Fisal, and hence wired $1.822m into the record.
In check 11, EFCC told the court that without experiencing any monetary organization, the Defendant paid a money amount of $1.4m to buy a property in Abuja.
It said that the Defendant had on June 27, 2012, made money installment of $2m through one Adamu Modibbo, for the acquisition of another property in the Jabi District of Abuja.
The arraignment kept up that the Defendants carried out criminal offenses culpable under areas 11(2) (a), 15(3), and 16(2) (c) of the Money Laundering Prohibition Act, and furthermore acted in break of the Advance Fee Fraud Act.
In any case, the Defendants who were summoned on October 25, 2019, argued not blameworthy to charge. The court to suspend sitting.
As at the hour of documenting in this report, 10:30, Maina is as yet on the floor with clinical officials from the court attempting to restore him.
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