Seventeen top-profile witnesses are billed to testify against former ministers of Aviation and Finance, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode and Senator Nenadi Usman.
The former ministers are set to be charged with 17 counts bordering on money laundering and fraud, according to a source at the EFCC.
The source further said the accused persons may be arraigned on Wednesday, June 15.
The duo were charged along with Danjuman Yusuf and a company, Jointrust Dimentions Nigeria Limited by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Count one reads: “That you, Nenadi Esther Usman, Femi Fani-Kayode, Danjuman Yusuf And Jointrust Dimentions Nigeria Limited on or about the 8th day of January, 2015, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court conspired amongst yourselves to indirectly retain the sum of N1,500, 000,000.00 which sum you reasonably ought to have known forms part of the proceeds of an unlawful act to wit: stealing.”
The N4.6 billion fraud charge filed against Fani-Kayode and Usman has been assigned to Justice Sule Hassan of the Federal High Court in Lagos for trial.
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