A Federal Capital Territory High Court has remanded a former Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, and two others in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Kuje.
Justice Adeyemi Ajayi ordered that Idris and his co-defendants be kept in Kuje Correctional pending the hearing of their bail applications on July 27.
This followed the arraignment of the former AGF by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
The other defendants were Godfrey Olusegun Akindele, Mohammed Kudu Usman and Gezawa Commodity Market and Exchange Ltd.
The defendants are being prosecuted on a 14-count charge of stealing and criminal breach of trust to the tune of N109, 485,572,691.9.
The EFCC alleged that Ahmed Idris between February and December, 2021 at Abuja, used his position as the AGF to accept from Olusegun Akindele, a gratification in the aggregate sum of N15.1billion, which was later converted to United States Dollars.
The offence contravenes Section 155 of the Penal Code Act Cap 532 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1990 and punishable under the same Section.
The offence, the anti-graft agency said, was punishable under Section 315 of the Penal Code Act Cap 532 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1990.
