The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Friday arraigned a former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, for allegedly forging medical reports to evade trial. The anti-corruption agency claimed that Fani-Kayode procured one Dr Ogieva Oziegbe to issue fake medical reports, which he allegedly tendered in before the Federal High Court in his ongoing money laundering trial. Fani-Kayode, however, pleaded not guilty to the 12 countsFollowing the defendant’s not guilty plea, counsel for EFCC, S.I. Balogun noted that Fani-Kayode had deposited his international passport to the Federal High Court as part of the terms of his bail. “The defendant shall execute a bond in the sum of five million Naira and file an undertaking that he shall attend all proceedings in this case.

Source: Punch December 17, 2021 20:13 UTC