Money Laundering: Court Remands Fayose In EFCC Custody

Fayose in court with an EFCC official

The tax evasion instance of previous legislative leader of Ekiti state Ayodele Fayose has been suspended by the Federal High Court in Lagos till Wednesday, October 24, 2018. 

Fayose, who was summoned on Monday on a 11-tally charge by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), nonetheless, argued not liable to every one of the charges. 

The Prosecution Counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo, appealed to the court to remand the litigant in a jail pending assurance of his safeguard application. 

In any case, the previous representative's Counsel, Kanu Agabi (SAN), asked the court to remand him in EFCC authority bringing up that the safeguard application had been documented. 

In the wake of engaging accommodation of guidance, 

The managing judge, Justice Mojisola Olatoregun, subsequent to tuning in to the two legal advisors' contentions, requested that Fayose be remanded in EFCC Custody. 

The EFCC documented defilement allegations against Fayose, blaming him for gathering billions of naira, implied for buy of arms, from previous National Security Adviser Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.) in 2014.