Following his repeated failure to appear for continuation of his trial on money laundering charges, the arrest of former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, has been ordered by the Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday.
The court, in a ruling by trial Justice Okon Abang, revoked the bail it earlier granted to the Defendant who is facing a 12-count criminal charge the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, preferred against him and a firm, Common Input Properties & Investment Limited.
Aside from directing security agencies to track down and arrest the erstwhile pension boss, the trial court, gave the anti-graft agency the nod to try him in absentia. The court agreed with the EFCC that Maina’s absence from his trial on four successive dates, was without a cogent or verifiable evidence.
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