The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned a former chairman of Presidential Taskforce on Pension Reforms Committee, Abdulrasheed Maina.
The anti-graft agency arraigned Maina on Friday at the Federal High Court, Abuja under heavy security.
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Maina’s son, Faisal, is also being arraigned in the same court on a separate but similar charge.
Maina and his son appeared in court dressed in white caftans and dark blue caps.
The EFCC is arraigning Maina on a 12-count charge bordering on “money laundering, operating fictitious bank accounts and fraud.”
Justice Folasade Giwa-Ogunbanjo had on Tuesday ordered the temporary forfeiture of 23 property linked to Maina.
The judge gave the order following an ex-parte motion filed by the EFCC.
Maina is accused of being involved in pension fraud running into over N100 billion.
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The Federal Civil Service Commission dismissed him in 2013 for “absconding from duty” but he returned to the country in 2017 and was reinstated as a director in the interior ministry.
Following outrage, President Muhammadu Buhari ordered his dismissal and demanded a probe of his recall.
