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Court papers have been filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to seize a number of properties traced to the former chairman of the Pension Reforms Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina.
        According to reports from a top source within the EFCC on Sunday, October 6, The EFCC has traced many houses worth hundreds of millions of Naira at home and abroad to Maina. The source at the anti-graft agency said that Maina could not have genuinely procured the properties no matter how long he would have worked in the civil service. Apart from the houses, the EFCC also traced five companies to Maina, which the anti-graft agency said the suspects used for money laundering. The EFCC has asked Maina to provide details of the money in the accounts of the five firms. The source said: “The commission strongly believes that these properties which our operatives have traced in Nigeria and in other jurisdictions could have not have been genuinely procured by a civil servant like Maina no matter how long he would have worked in the service." An EFCC official said: “We have therefore filed for the temporary forfeiture of the mansions traced to him, which we strongly believe are proceeds of economic and financial crimes."