The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, remanded an aide to Governor Ayodele Fayose,
Mr. Abiodun Agbele, in Prison custody over his alleged complicity in N4.6billion fraud.
Trial Justice Nnamdi Dimgba remanded Agbele at Kuje Prison after he was docked by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on an 11-count criminal charge.
The anti-graft agency alleged that the defendant had between April 4 and November 13, 2014, connived with the then Minister of Defence for State, Musliu Obanikoro, Lt. A.O Adewale, Tunde Oshinowo and Olalekan Ogunseye to launder over N4.6bn from office of the National Security Adviser, NSA.
It maintained that it was the erstwhile NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki, retd, that facilitated the transfer of the fund into the Zenith Bank account of a firm, Sylvan Mcnamata Ltd, with Agbele as the sole signatory.
Noting that the fund was siphoned from account the NSA office operated with the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, EFCC, told the court that Obanikoro and other persons that were fingered in the illicit transfer, are currently at large.
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