The Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has rearrested John Yusuf, a former civil
servant, over alleged N3 billion pension fraud.
TheCable reports
that Yusuf was rearrested in Gombe.
The EFCC had on
March 21, 2018, secured a “re-conviction” of Yusuf for a six-year jail term and
N22.9 billion fine.
The EFCC has also obtained a remand order that would enable
Yusuf to serve his six-year jail term in Kuje prison as directed by the court
of appeal in Abuja.
In a judgement
delivered on March 22, 2018, the court of appeal had reversed an earlier
judgment of FCT high court and sentenced Yusuf to a cumulative term of six
years (two-year per count on a three-count charge).
Abubakar Talba, a
judge of the FCT high court, had initially ruled that Yusuf serve a two-year
jail term with the option of a N750,000 fine.
The theft was
uncovered by the senate joint committee on public service and establishment. At
the time, the committee was investigating Abdulrasheed Maina, the head of the
pension reform task team.
After the ruling,
the National Judicial Council suspended Talba for 12 months without pay.
“Justice Talba was
suspended from office following the findings by the council that he did not
exercise his discretion judicially and judiciously with regard to the sentences
he passed on one of the accused persons, John Yakubu Yusuf, in the police
pension case of FRN Vs Esai Dangabar and five others,” the council said at the
time.
Yusuf was first
accused of stealing N32.8 billion from the police pension fund.
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