- New reports indicate that The federal government has yet to send fresh request to the International police to assist in tracking and arresting Maina
- The Nigerian bureau of INTERPOL had yet to receive a formal request to place Maina again on the agency’s wanted list, a source revealed
- A formal request to the Nigerian bureau of the agency is a pre-condition for forwarding same to INTERPOL’s Internal Headquarters in Lyon, France
Despite claim that ex-chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina has been reported to INTERPOL, emerging reports indicate that the federal government has yet to send fresh request to the International Police to assist it in tracking and arresting the fleeing Maina.
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The ex-pension boss had once been placed on INTERPOL's watch when he was declared wanted after he failed to explain his role in an alleged N2bn pension fraud fund in 2013 by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
But in the latest development regarding his resurgence, Punch reports that the Nigerian bureau of INTERPOL had yet to receive a formal request to place Maina again on the agency’s wanted list.
A formal request to the Nigerian bureau of the agency is a pre-condition for forwarding same to INTERPOL’s Internal Headquarters in Lyon, France.
Further investigation by the news outlet revealed that none of Nigeria’s investigative agencies, the EFCC, Department of State Services, and Nigeria Immigration Service, made a formal request to the National Central Bureau of INTERPOL to issue an arrest warrant for the fleeing acting director.
The NCB of the international police in Nigeria is domiciled at the Force headquarters, Abuja.
A source who desires anonymity was quoted to have told Punch that: “As of Saturday, the INTERPOL General Secretariat had not received any request from either the EFCC or DSS to arrest Maina. So, as far as we are concerned, Maina is not a fugitive.”
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Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had earlier reported that the embattled former chairman of the presidential task force on pension reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, denied allegations that he embezzled pension fund.
Recall that Maina's whereabouts has remained unknown since 2013 after he was implicated in a pension fraud and was declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
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Source: Naija.ng