The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has convicted Faisal Maina, son of former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina, to twenty four years imprisonment for an offence bothering on money laundering.
Delivering judgement, Justice Okon Abang, held that the EFCC has proven beyond reasonable doubt that Faisal Maina, was guilty of the three count charge levelled against him.
Justice Abang also ordered the Federal Government to arrest Faisal Maina, anywhere he is found in Nigeria or commence lawful extradition process to bring him back to the country to serve his jail term if he is found outside the country.
Faisal had since June 24, 2020, failed to appear before the court for his trial, a development that led to the revocation of his bail.
EFCC had told the court that Faisal Maina, absconded to the United States through Niger republic.
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EFCC had in the charge before the court, alleged that Maina’s son had sometimes between 2013 and 2019, received the sum of about sixty million naira, being proceeds of a corrupt act by his father.
He was also accused of failing to properly declare his assets before the EFCC.
Faisal had reportedly pulled a gun to challenge operatives of the Department of State Service, DSS that arrested his father at a hotel in Abuja on September 30, 2019.
It will be recalled that his father, Maina also jumped bail and was later arrested in Niger Republic and extradited to the country by the Interpol.
