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Mahmoud Tukur, an official of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission , told an Abuja court that the commission did not promise not to prosecute Ahmed Idris, former accountant-general of the federation .
Idris was arrested on May 16, 2022, by the EFCC over alleged diversion of funds and money laundering.Halilu Yusuf, the presiding judge, had ordered a trial-within-trial in the matter to enable the court to determine whether all the extra-judicial statements made by the former AGF to the EFCC should be admitted in evidence.
“Although the team was not ready for such, the commission, however, obliged him. We listened to him and told him whatever he said would be documented.“By my thinking, coming without a lawyer means he was waiving his rights.”He said Idris was arrested in Kano on May 16, 2022, and brought to Abuja because he refused to respond to messages and calls put across to him by the EFCC.
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