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Diezani Bribe: EFCC Arraigns Ex-Minister, Akinjide, Others for N650m Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, January 16, 2018 arraigned a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Jumoke Akinjide, Senator Ayo Adeseun and a Peoples Democratic (PDP) stalwart, Chief Olanrewaju Otiti, before Justice M. S. Hassan of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on an amended 24-count charge bordering on money laundering to the tune of N650million. The defendants were alleged to have received the money from a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, in the build-up to the 2015 general election. The money w…

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