COURT FIXES JAN 7 TO RULE ON BAIL APPLICATIONS OF EX-AGF MALAMI, WIFE, SON
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By: Sefiu Ajape
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has scheduled January 7 to deliver its ruling on the bail applications brought by former Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, SAN, alongside his son, Abubakar Abdulaziz, and his wife, Bashir Asabe.
Justice Emeka Nwite fixed the date on Friday after defence counsel, Joseph Daudu, SAN, and counsel to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ekele Iheanacho, SAN, adopted their respective processes and advanced arguments before the court.
According to reports, the EFCC, in the charge numbered FHC/ABJ/CR/700/2025, listed the former minister, his wife and his son as the first, second and third defendants in an alleged money laundering case.
The anti-graft agency accused the defendants of engaging in multiple suspicious financial transactions and allegedly attempting to hide the illegal source of billions of naira through several bank accounts and property purchases in Abuja, Kano and Kebbi states.
The offences were said to have occurred between 2015 and 2025, a period that covers Malami’s time as AGF during the administration of the late former President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Commission further alleged that Malami, his wife and son conspired to conceal the origin of the funds, acquire properties through proxies and retain sums they allegedly knew to be proceeds of unlawful activities, contrary to the Money Laundering (Prohibition and Prevention) Acts of 2011 (as amended) and 2022.
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