EFCC files money laundering charge against Malami, son … To account for 30 houses, valued at N212.8billion

Malami

Immediate-past Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), has been charged with money laundering.

He will face a 16-count charge.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) charged him under Section 15(2) (d) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011, as amended and punishable under Section 15(3).

He is charged along with his son, Abdulaziz, and an employee of Rahamaniyya Properties Limited, Hajia Bashir Asabe.

In the charge, the first in three series, Malami was alleged to have laundered about N9billion to buy choice houses in Abuja, Kebbi, Kano and others.

The ex-AGF is to account for how he came about 30 houses, valued at N212.8billion.

They were mostly acquired during his eight years in office.

He served between 2015 and 2023 in the government of the late President Muhammadu Buhari.

The EFCC may invoke the Non-Conviction Asset Forfeiture clause of its Establishment Act to seize some of the properties.

It has a 14-day window to ask anyone interested to show cause as to why the assets should not be forfeited to the Federal Government.