The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has confirmed the arrest of Faisal Maina, son of former chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina.
According to PREMIUM TIMES, the EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, disclosed this on Saturday morning.
Oyewale said {that a} court docket order could be required to switch Faisal to a correctional centre to serve his jail sentence.
“Confirmed. The obligatory court docket order might be obtained to take him to the Correctional Centre for him to serve his sentence,” the EFCC spokesperson stated in response to enquiries.
Recall that Faisal, who had been on the run since 2020, was tracked by DSS operatives in Karsana, Abuja, the place he was picked up.
It could be recalled that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, had arraigned Faisal on three-count of cash laundering and conspiracy.
He later jumped bail and fled the nation, however the court docket continued his trial in absentia and sentenced him to 14 years in jail in 2021.
