Few days after Maina’s son was arrested by Police for pulling a gun on DSS officials, the former Chairman of the pension Reforms Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, faces loss of all his properties both within Nigeria and abroad, as The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has filed court papers to confiscate a number of his properties.
EFCC has also filed another motion to get an extended order to detain the former deputy director with the Customs, Immigration and Prisons Pension, CIPPO, who was handed last week by the Department of State Services after being arrested in an undisclosed hotel in Abuja.
According to withinnigeria, their source said that the EFCC had traced many houses worth hundreds of millions of Naira at home and abroad to Maina.
An Official said ,”The commission strongly believes that these properties which our operatives have traced in Nigeria and in other jurisdictions could have not have been genuinely procured by a civil servant like Maina no matter how long he would have worked in the service,” one of the sources said in Abuja last night.
“We have therefore filed for the temporary forfeiture of the mansions traced to him, which we strongly believe are proceeds of economic and financial crimes,”
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More companies have been discovered as being used by Maina to carry out more money laundering. EFCC has asked him to provide details of the money in the accounts of the firms.
The lists of the firms are Cluster Logistics, Drew Investment & Construction Ltd, Kongolo Dynamics Cleaning Ltd, “Dr” AbduUahi A. Faizal, Nafisatu Aliyu Yeldu and Abdulrasheed Abdullahi Maina.
There has also been speculations that Maina might be charged to court this week. Although it is not yet confirmed.