Money Laundering: Court Orders Maina’s Son To Serve Seven-Year Prison Term

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday ordered that Faisal Maina, son of former Pension Reform Task Team chairman, Abdulrasheed Maina, be remanded in a correctional facility to serve his jail sentence for cash laundering.

Justice James Omotosho made the order after granting an ex parte software filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in search of a warrant for Faisal’s dedication to the Nigeria Correctional Service.

The EFCC had requested the court docket to implement the conviction and sentence imposed on Faisal for cash laundering and failure to completely disclose his belongings in a declaration type.

The fee additionally requested that his jail time period ought to start from October 14, 2026, when he was rearrested by the Department of State Services within the Karsana space of Abuja.

Faisal was subsequently handed over to the EFCC, about six years after he jumped bail and disappeared throughout his trial.

After the EFCC counsel, M.Okay. Hussain, moved the appliance, Omotosho granted the reliefs sought and issued the committal warrant.

The decide directed that Faisal ought to serve three years’ imprisonment on rely one, seven years on rely two and three years on rely three, in accordance with the Court of Appeal’s judgment of November 24, 2022.

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The sentences are to run concurrently, ranging from October 14, 2026.

Faisal was arraigned in 2019 on a three-count cost bordering on cash laundering and failure to make full disclosure of his belongings. He pleaded not responsible earlier than a former decide of the court docket, Justice Okon Abang.

However, he later jumped bail and stopped attending court docket proceedings, prompting Abang to proceed the trial in his absence.

On October 7, 2021, the court docket convicted him and sentenced him to 5 years’ imprisonment on counts one and three, and 14 years on rely two. The sentences had been to run concurrently.

Abang additionally ordered his arrest wherever he was discovered and his switch to a correctional centre to serve the sentence.

Although the Court of Appeal upheld the conviction, it lowered the sentences in its November 24, 2022 judgment to 3 years on counts one and three, and 7 years on rely two.

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