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DAILY POST learnt that Rufai was denied bail by a federal Magistrate Court sitting in New York.
The magistrate had ruled on Wednesday that Rufai, who was charged for his involvement in unemployment fraud in Washington State, cannot be released before his trial.
Rufai’s counsel, Michael Barrows of Garden City, New York, had urged the court to grant his client bail on self recognizance.
The lawyer had asked that he be released to the custody of his brother, one Alaba A. Rufai, who is an attorney in New York.
Abidemi Rufai had also agreed to electronic home monitoring and certain travel restrictions.