Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

Court Adjourns Andrew Yakubu’s Money Laundering Case to Mar 27

Justice A.R. Mohammed of a Federal High Court, Abuja has fixed March 27, 2019 for adoption of written addresses in a no-case submission filed by Andrew Yakubu, who is standing trial for a six-count charge, bordering on money laundering offence and false declaration of assets. The former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, had filed a “no-case” submission on December 5, 2018 through Anone Usman, standing in for his counsel, Ahmed Raji, SAN, asking the court to strike the charges against him and acquit him of any wrongdoing. Usman had argued that the evi…