Efcc Charges Sirika, Brother In New N19bn Fraud.
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has charged former Minister of
Aviation, Hadi Sirika, his
brother, Ahmad Sirika; and his company Enginos Nigeria Limited, with over
N19.4 billion fraud.
The sum was appropriated for several aviation ministry contracts from the
former minister to Enginos
Nigeria Limited, owned by Sirika’s younger brother, Abubakar.
The Sirika brothers and Enginos Nigeria Limited will be arraigned before
Justice Belgore of the Federal
Capital Territory High Court, Garki, Abuja today after the second criminal
charge the EFCC will be filing
against the ex-aviation minister, and he was last Thursday arraigned for
N2.7bn fraud before the High
Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja.
Sirika was arraigned on six counts alongside his daughter, Fatimah;
brother-in-law, Jalal Hamma, and Al-
Buraq Investment Ltd.
The defendants pleaded not guilty while Justice Sylvanus Oriji granted them
N100m bail each, with the
condition that they must not travel out of the country until the end of the
criminal case.
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