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EFCC Re-arraigns Atiku’s Son-in-Law, Abdullahi Babalele for $140,000 Money Laundering

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal office, on Thursday, October 8, 2019, re-arraigned one Abdullahi Babalele before Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on a two-count charge bordering on money laundering to the tune of $140,000.00. Babalele, a son-in-law to a former Vice President and People’s Democratic Party( PDP) candidate in the 2019 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, allegedly persuaded one Bashir Mohammed, a Bureau De Change( BDC) operator, to make a cash payment of the sum of $140,000 without going through any fina…