A High Court sitting in the Federal Capital Territory has ordered that the suspended Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, be detained in prison custody. <\/p>\n
The embattled AGF is standing trial over his alleged illegal diversion of public funds to the tune of N109.4 billion.<\/p>\n
He was arraigned on a 14-count bordering on conspiracy, criminal breach of trust, and money laundering.<\/p>\n
Trial Justice A.O. Adeyemi Ajayi who remanded the suspended AGF and other defendants in the matter, said they remain in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Service till Wednesday when their bail applications would be heard.<\/p>\n
Details later\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A High Court sitting in the Federal Capital Territory has ordered that the suspended Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, be detained in prison custody. The embattled AGF is standing trial over his alleged illegal diversion of public funds to the tune of N109.4 billion. He was arraigned on a 14-count bordering on conspiracy, criminal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":188324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[29865,12671,9161,42531],"class_list":["post-205230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-abuja-federal-high-court","tag-agf","tag-ahmed-idris","tag-n109-4-billion"],"yoast_head":"\n