Court sentences Maina to 61-year jail over pension fraud

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday November 8 observed the director of the old Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina, at real fault for tax evasion charges.

In a judgment being conveyed by Okon Abang, the preliminary appointed authority, the court held that Mr Maina took over N2 billion having a place with Pensioners, “a large portion of whom have passed on without procuring the their rewards for all the hard work,” the adjudicator said.

“I track down the respondent (Mr Maina) blameworthy and sentenced in count 2, 6, 9, 3, 7 and 10,” Mr Abang held.

A month prior, the court imprisoned Mr Maina’s child, Faisal, subsequent to viewing him to be very muchblameworthy on every one of the three counts of tax evasion including N58.1million in broad daylight reserves.

There has been no report that Faisal, who confronted a preliminary separate from his dad, has been secured and placed in prison.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had summoned Mr Maina before Mr Abang, on October 25, 2019, and firm, Common Input Property and Investment Ltd.

Mr Maina was taken a stab at a 12-count tax evasion charge recorded against him by the EFCC.

Part of the claims against him is that he utilized his firm to wash N2 billion and furthermore utilized some of it to get properties in Abuja.

He had argued “not blameworthy” to the charges.

Mr Maina had bounced bail twice over the span of the preliminary. He was as of late captured in Niamey, Niger Republic, where he had escaped.

It was anyway detailed how a representative, Ali Ndume, was momentarily imprisoned after he neglected to give Mr Maina, whom he had stood guarantee for. Mr Ndume went through five days at the Kuje remedial focus before he was allowed bail.

In the charge checked FHC/ABJ/CR/256/2019, EFCC claimed that Maina utilized imaginary names to open and work different financial balances, just as enlisted his family members that were brokers to work counterfeit ledgers through which unlawful assets were directed.

The decision is progressing, as the appointed authority said, “it’s a long judgment, which I would rather not alarm counsel.