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A former chairman of the defunct Pension Reformed Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, has said he has no case to answer.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday closed its case after the ninth prosecution witness concluded her testimony in the N2bn money laundering trial of Maina at the Federal High Court in Abuja.
Maina’s lawyer, Anayo Adibe, said his client, in the belief that the EFCC failed to make a prima facie case warranting him to put up a defence, would file a no-case submission for the dismissal of the charges.
By Alex Enumah
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday closed its case after its ninth prosecution witness concluded her testimony in the N2bn money laundering trial of a former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reformed Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, at the Federal High Court in Abuja.
Maina told the court that he had no case to answer in the allegations levied against him by the EFCC.
Maina, who told Justice Okon Abang shortly after the EFCC, through its counsel, Farouk Abdullah, closed its case, said he would be filing a no-case submission.
Rouqayya Ibrahim, an EFCC investigator, who started testifying as the ninth prosecution witnesses on November 29, 2020, closed her evidence after she was cross-examined by Maina’s lawyer, Anayo Adibe, on Wednesday.