EFCC IS SEEKING KOGI FIRST LADY OVER ALLEGATIONS OF MONEY LAUNDERING.

Rashida Bello, the first lady of Kogi, has been proclaimed sought by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for alleged fraud.

A federal high court in Abuja heard Ali Bello, who was identified as the governor of Kogi’s nephew, on Wednesday.

The two were docked alongside three other people on an 18-count charge “bordering on criminal mismanagement and money laundering to the tune of N3,081,804,654,” according to a statement by EFCC spokesperson Wilson Uwujaren.

“That you, Ali Bello, Abba Adaudu, Yakubu Siyaka Adabenege, Iyada Sadat, and Rashida Bello (at large), sometime in June 2020 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, procured E-Traders International Limited to retain the aggregate sum of N3,081,804,654.00 (Three Billion, Eighty One Million, Eight Thousand, Six Hundred and Fifty Four Naira), which sum

“That you Ali Bello and Abba Adaudu Rashida Bello (at large) caused E-Traders International Limited to transfer a total of $570,330 (Five Hundred and Seventy Thousand, Three Hundred and Thirty United States Dollars) to account number 426-6644272 located in TD Bank, United States of America, which sum you reasonably ought to have known constitutes proceeds of unlawful activity,” the court’s complaint reads.

However, the accused entered a not guilty plea to the accusation.