The presidency dismisses the sentence of the United States Court on the FBI of Tinubu, reports DEA

● Urge urges the Nigerians to ignore it

The presidency, on Sunday, urged the Nigerians to reject the sentence resulting from a previous order by a United States Court according to which the American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Drug Enforcement drug (Dea) should release confidential information collected by the investigation on President Bola Tinubu for a case relating to drugs in the 90s.

In a Sunday declaration, the presidency said that “there is nothing new to reveal” and the aforementioned relationship of the FBI agent Moss and the Dea report have been in public space for more than 30 years “.

The President’s Special Consultant for information and strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said that relations have not in any way “offended the Nigerian leader”, adding however, that the “lawyers of the president are examining the sentence”.

Judge Beryl Howell, in the sentence, said that the protection of information from public dissemination is not “logic or plausible”.

An American, Aaron Greenspan, had filed a cause in June 2023 pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (Foia) against the executive office for US lawyers, the State Department, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Drug Enforcement Administration (Dea) and Central Intelligence Agency Agency (Cia).

Greenspan has accused the police of violating Foia, unable to issue documents relating to alleged federal investigations on the “President Tinubu and One Inhabitun Agbele within the legal time”.

In his request Foia, the American sought criminal investigative documents on four people named “presumably associated with the drug ring: Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Lee Andrew Edwards, Mueez Abegboyega Akande and Inhabitun Agbele”.

After the requests, the US agencies issued “glomar responses”, refusing to confirm or deny if the required records exist.

Greenspan contested these responses to the information office of the Department of Justice (“OIP”). The OIP has affirmed the refusal of the agencies to confirm or deny the existence of the requested registers.

The American then filed a cause on June 12, 2023, appointing the FBI, the goddess, the IRS, EUSA, the CIA and the State Department as defendants and challenging the response of each agency to the separate requests.

Tuesday, the judge observed that since it was recognized that Mr. Tinubu was the subject of an investigation involving both the FBI and the goddess, “the statement that the responses of Glomar were necessary to protect this information from public dissemination is not at this point, neither logic nor plausible”.

The judge said that the “glomar” responses affirmed by the FBI and the goddess are “improper and must be revoked”.

He reduced the exemptions previously used to draw up the files and ordered the FBI and the goddess to remove the editorial offices and release the files again.

The judge ordered the FBI and the goddess to link jointly, by May 2, a report on the state of any outstanding problems in this case, as described in the accompanying order.

How the members of the drug ring have been broken and linked to Tinubu funds

Part of the documents presented by Greenspan in court to support his case Foia were a verified complaint and accompanying the security declaration, presented in the northern district of the Illinois by the Doj on 26 July 1993.

The documents sought the civil decadence of Tinubu funds held by First Heritage Bank, presumably connected to the investigations on drug trafficking.

The security declaration of the Department of the Internal Revenue of the Treasury (IRS) Kevin Moss, which was involved in the investigations, detailed the drug trafficking activities of Agbele, who provided the land for the search for the decline of Tinubu funds. He also shared intuitions on how Mr. Agbele was arrested as he sold white heroine to the person who was not known as undercover agent.

He said that on arrival in the United States, “Agbele identified Akande (who was also linked to Mr. Tinubu) as his uncle and said that Akande provided him (Agbele) an apartment in Hammond, Indian”, citing “investigating the agents of the goddess” as a source of this information.

Subsequently, Agbele was arrested and agreed to collaborate “with the investigations.

The security declaration also said that further investigations from the goddess revealed a lease completed by Agbele.

The sworn declaration of Mr. Moss confirmed that both the FBI and the goddess studied Tinubu in the widest investigation on the drug trafficking activities of Mr. Agbele and other members of his ring.

He confirmed that “there is a probable cause to believe that the funds in some bank accounts controlled by Bola Tinubu have been involved in financial transactions” in violation of the US laws “and represent the proceeds of drug trafficking”.

He said that trying to direct the funds of Mr. Tinubu derived from “investigation into the money laundering of the proceeds of a heroin distribution organization in the Chicago area”. It was said that the invoked clues included “information provided by special agents of the IRS, goddess, (e) FBI”.

Although Tinubu has given up on suspicious funds, he constantly denied illicit. Furthermore, it has never been accused of any crime in case.

[Culled from Premium Times exvluding headline]”

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