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Atiku’s Lawyer, Son-in-Law, get N20m Bail For $2m Money Laundering

Justice Iniekenimi N. Oweibo of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Thursday, August 15, 2019, granted bail to Abdullahi Babalele, a son-in-law to a former Vice President and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential candidate in the 2019 election, Atiku Abubakar, in the sum of N20m. Babalele was arraigned on Wednesday, August 14, 2019 on a two-count charge bordering on money laundering to the tune of $140, 000. The defendant allegedly persuaded one Bashir Mohammed to make a cash payment of the sum of $140,000 without going through any financial institution, an offence contra…

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