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Superintendent of Police, Bashir Abdulahi, yesterday told a Federal
High Court in Lagos how former Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi
Fani-Kayode, allegedly made several illegal payments into his bank
account while in office.
Abdulahi, who was an operative with the Economic and Financial Crime
Commission, EFCC, but now at the Force Headquarters, Abuja, told Justice
Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia that he investigated the alleged mismanagement of
fund by Fani-Kayode.
Ofili-Ajumogobia adjourned till today for crossexamination.
But before the adjournment, the witness said the petition about
mismanagement of aviation
fund was assigned to his team for
investigation.
He said investigation revealed that several payments, beyond the
legal limits, were made into Fani-Kayode’s account, through one Mark
Saviour.
Telling the court how his team discovered the alleged fraud, Abdulahi
said: “I and other members of the team assigned responsibilities for
ourselves and collected various documents that would assist our
investigation.”
The witness said his team obtained several documents from various
institutions, including Fani-Kayode’s statement of account with Finbank
Plc, for analysis, adding that the team analysed the documents and the
bank statements.
He said: “We obtained documents from different financial institutions; especially Finbank Plc which was keeping his accounts.
Abdulahi said Fani-Kayode reneged on his promise to produce Saviour for interrogation.
Responding to a question by prosecuting counsel, Mr. Vitalis Ahaotu,
the witness said as at the time he left the EFCC the former minister did
not present himself before the commission.
EFCC tendered seven statements made by Fani- Kayode between June and December 2008.
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