BREAKING: Chicago Court Releases Licensed True Copies of Bola Tinubu’s Drug Dealing, Money Laundering Case

Nigerians have lengthy insisted that the presidential candidate ought to come clear on his involvement within the case, which noticed him forfeit as much as $460,000 to American authorities in 1993. Continue Reading…

America District Courtroom for the Northern District of Illinois has launched recent paperwork holding Bola Tinubu’s encounter with American authorities over allegations of narcotics trafficking and cash laundering.

Mr Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress and former Lagos governor, has come beneath intense public ridicule and political onslaught for his position in an early Nineteen Nineties drug trafficking case in Chicago.

Mr Tinubu has not commented on the narcotics affair, which has made headlines since at the least the mid-aughts, preferring as an alternative to debate different elements of his background in company accounting, consultancy and pro-democracy activism. He, nevertheless, knowledgeable the electoral workplace INEC in his software to face for the election that he had no prior legal convictions.
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Mr Tinubu’s allies have additionally made efforts to downplay the matter completely as a trivial distraction to Nigeria’s democratic expertise as a result of it occurred many years in the past in a distant land.

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The 56-page doc launched by the district court docket’s headquarters in Chicago didn’t embody essential new particulars, nevertheless it additional confirmed snippets of the matter that had been shared spontaneously by the media for years. Journalist David Hundeyin additionally reignited curiosity in Mr Tinubu’s drug-dealing background following a July 13 article in West Africa Weekly.

The newest licensed copies of the court docket case, obtained on August 10, confirmed Mr Tinubu and two others named Okay.O. Tinubu and Alhaji Mogati have been concerned in banking proceeds of illicit medication and cash laundering with Heritage Financial institution and Citibank.

It was not instantly clear whether or not or not ‘Alhaji Mogati’ was a misspelling of Alhaja Abibatu Mogaji, Mr Tinubu’s foster mom, who handed on in 2013. The U.S. authorities had in July 1993 sought forfeiture of proceeds of narcotics Mr Tinubu was accused of laundering. The matter was resolved in a compromise between the Tinubus and the U.S. authorities, with the Tinubus being requested to maintain the cash within the Heritage Checking account whereas the $460,000 within the Citibank account was forfeited.
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A federal decide subsequently dismissed the matter with prejudice on September 21, 1993, which successfully foreclosed the matter from being litigated once more by all events. It, nevertheless, remained unclear whether or not or not Nigerian authorities might nonetheless deliver prices towards Mr Tinubu over the identical case in Nigerian courts.

Kalu Kalu Agu, an Abuja-based lawyer with ties to opposition politics, has been amongst these searching for to carry Mr Tinubu to account over the matter.

He petitioned the EFCC and NDLEA, Nigerian anti-graft and anti-narcotics departments, respectively, to probe Mr Tinubu’s involvement within the drug prices earlier than the presidential elections in February.
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Within the November 8 petition, Mr Kalu Agu gave each workplaces seven days to launch motion towards Mr Tinubu or be compelled via a judicial order of mandamus, a course of that includes ordering a public division to carry out a public obligation.

“It’s our view that you’ve got a historic obligation to make sure that Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu is named to account for his deeds in cash laundering arising from his involvement in narcotics trafficking,” Mr Kalu Agu stated from his think-tank Centre for Reform & Public Accountability in Abuja.

Mr Tinubu, who has been on a marketing campaign tour via the nation, didn’t return a request searching for feedback concerning the launched court docket paperwork and Mr Kalu Agu’s petition to federal authorities.

A spokesman for his marketing campaign additionally declined feedback. Continue Reading…