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Yahaya Bello’s Wife, Nephew Arraigned By EFCC Over ‘3 Billion Naira Fraud’
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Yahaya Bello’s wife and nephew have been arrested by the EFCC.
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The EFCC revealed that they were locked up on account of money Laundering and criminal misappropriation.
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According to reports, Rashida is not currently in custody.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned Rashida, wife of Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi, over alleged fraud.
The federal high court sitting in Abuja also arraigned on Wednesday Ali Bello, identified as a nephew to the Kogi governor.
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In a statement by Wilson Uwujaren, EFCC spokesperson, the agency said the duo were docked alongside three other persons on an 18-count charge “bordering on criminal misappropriation and money laundering to the tune of N3,081,804,654″
Rashida is, however, said to be at large.
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“That you, Ali Bello, Abba Adaudu, Yakubu Siyaka Adabenege, Iyada Sadat, Rashida Bello (at large) sometime in June 2020 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court procured E- Traders International Limited to retain the aggregate sum of N3,081,804,654.00 (Three Billion, Eighty-One Million, Eight Hundred and Four Thousand, Six Hundred and Fifty-Four Naira) which sum you reasonably ought to have known forms part of proceeds of unlawful activity to wit: criminal misappropriation, and you thereby committed an offence contrary to sections 18(a), 15(20)(d) of the Money Laundering Prohibition Act, 2011 as amended and punishable under section 15 (3) of the same Act,” count one of the charges reads.
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