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Firm linked to Atiku’s son-in-law over under scrutiny for money laundering

A federal high court in Abuja has ordered the temporary freezing of a Fidelity Bank account belonging to Mars Aviation Limited over money laundering allegations connected to Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL).

Musa Liman, the presiding judge, granted the order following an ex parte motion filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

The motion, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1299/2025, was filed on July 1 and moved by Geraldine Ofulue, the EFCC counsel.

Ofulue told the court that the account is under investigation in a case involving alleged criminal misappropriation and money laundering. She prayed the court to freeze the account pending the conclusion of the investigation.

Ruling on the motion, Liman held that the EFCC’s application had merit and accordingly granted the request. Although the order was made on September 22.

The EFCC had asked the court to empower its chairman, Ola Olukoyede, or any other authorised officer to direct the managing director of Fidelity Bank to freeze the account.

According to the motion, the account number 5250350283 (C03651082) is held by Mars Aviation Limited.

In an affidavit supporting the motion, Abdulganiyu Olayide, an EFCC investigator attached to the commission’s special duties committee, said his team was assigned to probe the matter.

Olayide said the investigation followed intelligence alleging that NNPCL had made several payments to Mars Aviation for purported contracts that were phoney and granted in default of the provisions of the Procurement Act.

He added that preliminary findings revealed that huge sums of money were paid into the company’s Fidelity Bank account by NNPCL in multiple instalments.

The EFCC official said freezing the account was necessary to preserve the funds and prevent any transactions while the investigation continues.

“That I make this affidavit in good faith, believing its contents to be true and correct and in accordance with the Oaths Act,” Olayide said.

There are reports that Mars Aviation Limited is allegedly owned by Abdullahi Bashir-Haske, the founder and group managing director of AA&R. Bashir-Haske is married to the daughter of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar.

In August, Haske was placed on EFCC’s wanted list over allegations of criminal conspiracy and money laundering.

https://www.thecable.ng/court-freezes-bank-account-of-firm-linked-to-atikus-son-in-law-over-phoney-nnpc-contracts/

Very good one, after being granted administrative bail, the criminal fled out of the country. Atiku and all his conduit pipes he's using to steal our commonwealth will all be exposed, he will never become President. Just like Kanu hiding under health issues to find a way to run out of the country. The law will keep putting legs on your necks.

zero8zero:
Very good one, after being granted administrative bail, the criminal fled out of the country. Atiku and all his conduit pipes he's using to steal our commonwealth will all be exposed, he will never become President. Just like Kanu hiding under health issues to find a way to run out of the country. The law will keep putting legs on your necks.

Kanu is the bandit that is massacring your Yoruba people in kwara and some parts of Abuja

LagosOrigin:
Kanu is the bandit that is massacring your Yoruba people in kwara and some parts of Abuja

The bandit commanders that have been killed, does Kanu want to follow them?.

zero8zero:
The bandit commanders that have been killed, does Kanu want to follow them?.

You can easily tell when you see people suffering from chronic starvation.

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Them don start their witch hunting against atiku.na the only thing wey they know be that.

Jostoman:
Them don start their witch hunting against atiku.na the only thing wey they know be that.

This is why you and I will continue to complain and curse this nation till we expire. Someone stole your commonwealth and you're defending him. Spits


What is bad is bad!!!!!

RenoOkriTheGoat:
You can easily tell when you see people suffering from chronic starvation.

Kanu would rot in j@il.
Let him stay there.
I love your wailing

Alliswell248:
Kanu would rot in j@il.
Let him stay there.
I love your wailing

my fren goan sit on top cow kakaa, undisputed champion of yarnin dust na here you dey, na here we go find you..kwara matter you go dodge am like blind bat

am sure this man is not stupid enuf to leave less than a billion naira in a Nigerian account.


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zero8zero:
Very good one, after being granted administrative bail, the criminal fled out of the country. Atiku and all his conduit pipes he's using to steal our commonwealth will all be exposed, he will never become President. Just like Kanu hiding under health issues to find a way to run out of the country. The law will keep putting legs on your necks.

A concern Nigerian like you should be worried of bandits and terrorists granting interviews up and down in broad daylight with live animations but no kanu seems to be your headache it's well with Nigeria that's all I have to say

LagosG:
This is why you and I will continue to complain and curse this nation till we expire. Someone stole your commonwealth and you're defending him. Spits


What is bad is bad!!!!!

what about those under this government, their sin have been forgiven because they are in APC.

Omo by the time tinubu will be through with oppositional polictians with blackmail them go dey regrets y them declare interest.

If Goodluck get mind make him declare Weds efcc no go use am shine

Atiku and his families have been stealing monies and laundary since decades ago. Atiku has used proxies to launder at every now and then.

Arabk25:
A concern Nigerian like you should be worried of bandits and terrorists granting interviews up and down in broad daylight with live animations but no kanu seems to be your headache it's well with Nigeria that's all I have to say

nnamdi kanu is the course of rising insecurity in south east and in Nigeria...

RenoOkriTheGoat:
You can easily tell when you see people suffering from chronic starvation.

Stop projecting your lifestyle on someone else. Hustle o, so that you won't be crying of hunger on Nairaland.

Arabk25:
A concern Nigerian like you should be worried of bandits and terrorists granting interviews up and down in broad daylight with live animations but no kanu seems to be your headache it's well with Nigeria that's all I have to say

And you are not worried ipob is locking grown up parents at home every Monday in the SE?.

Holdup247:
nnamdi kanu is the course of rising insecurity in south east and in Nigeria...

If our government deploy the same means they use in arresting Nnamdi kanu we won't be here discussing this right now. They should treat all terrorists equal or what do you think? Why will they be negotiating with others and treating others like trash 🗑️.

Freshtruth:
Omo by the time tinubu will be through with oppositional polictians with blackmail them go dey regrets y them declare interest.

If Goodluck get mind make him declare Weds efcc no go use am shine

The reason you're shouting about corruption is because the politicians you like are not the ones stealing, if they are you would be defending them like you're doing right now. To you, he's being blackmailed for money laundering, so why did he run away?.

Holdup247:
nnamdi kanu is the course of rising insecurity in south east and in Nigeria...

In 2000 when boko haram started where was kanu just asking though cus I don't know maybe you should know better because you just stated he was the cause of insecurity in Nigeria. Was kanu the cause of madala bomb blast? Maybe he's responsible I don't know chai let him rot in jail

LagosOrigin:
Kanu is the bandit that is massacring your Yoruba people in kwara and some parts of Abuja

Have you even finished counting the countless numbers of Igbos Kanu had massacred, killed directly and indirectly, that he would even get time to reach Kwara? He is in the DSS right now weaving his bag of escape via health, he said he might die very soon, instead of you to go there, get bread for him and ask about if he has any successor anymore after that one in far away country had been silenced by Tinubu. You can't rule out involvement of ipob/ESN member in any other part of the country because Kanu had trained them inside bushes for same violent purposes. Since they don't get biafra payment anymore, they can move elsewhere

zero8zero:
And you are not worried ipob is locking grown up parents at home every Monday in the SE?.

Funny enough people like you who carry this fake news are not even a resident in SE. Where I stay in the East and virtually 70% in east don't even observe that bullshit called lockdown. I wonder where you guys are getting your facts from. I'm a solar engineer I even worked on Monday been yesterday

Arabk25:
Funny enough people like you who carry this fake news are not even a resident in SE. Where I stay in the East and virtually 70% in east don't even observe that bullshit called lockdown. I wonder where you guys are getting your facts from. I'm a solar engineer I even worked on Monday been yesterday

70% no longer observe it now?, can you say this before Tinubu came to power?.. ingrates.

zero8zero:
The reason you're shouting about corruption is because the politicians you like are not the ones stealing, if they are you would be defending them like you're doing right now. To you, he's being blackmailed for money laundering, so why did he run away?.

Okowa has trillion theft hanging in is n cm y is he not probe? Bloody hypocrite

zero8zero:
70% no longer observe it now?, can you say this before Tinubu came to power?.. ingrates.

You're peddler of fake news I don't have the power to argue with people that have little knowledge of something and want to make a big scene out of it I'm not available for senseless arguments bro

Arabk25:
If our government deploy the same means they use in arresting Nnamdi kanu we won't be here discussing this right now. They should treat all terrorists equal or what do you think? Why will they be negotiating with others and treating others like trash 🗑️.

so you have come to the acceptance that nnamdi kanu is a terrorist?

This is what Ariku has been after for donkey years... direct control of NNPC for his family's benefit. He has built up a coalition of bandits headed by the one and only midget rufai to achieve this goal.

God forbid another plague from fulani bandits.

Holdup247:
so you have come to the acceptance that nnamdi kanu is a terrorist?

You're the one who fail to understand the meaning of terrorism because of bigotry I think
The man says he doesn't want he and his people to be a part of Nigeria again I don't think that's terrorism well people like you will see it as that because of your level of thinking.
If any group or people says they want to leave this country with the way things are right now, to me I think that's the best decision any tribe has ever made. And I can't see it as terrorism