BREAKING: According to Abubakar Malami, a previous Minister of Justice, a businessman named Mahdi Shehu was apprehended in Kaduna when he tried to take advantage of his wife, Aisha, for a sum of $500,000.
It has been alleged by Mr Shehu, through his lawyer, M.I. Abubakar, that the Nigeria police apprehended the controversial activist due to his recent demand for the legal action against Mr Malami and other key figures from the previous administration.
He mentioned that his client had been detained by the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Monitoring Unit, seemingly based on a complaint registered by the former minister.
According to an official statement from Mr. Malami’s legal firm, A.A. Sheriff, it has been disclosed that the contentious activist was apprehended at a hotel while in the midst of attempting to extort a substantial amount of $500,000.
While Mr. Sheriff rejected the activist’s accusations, he revealed that the suspect was apprehended for charges related to engaging in extortion, engaging in criminal intimidation, and attempting to deceive a syndicate through the use of GSM numbers and email addresses in order to acquire money by deceptive means.
“Our attention has been drawn to the above press statement that was made on February 7, 2024, as well as that of 13th January 2021, and we, as solicitors to Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN and his family, noted with grave concern that the press statement is totally not correct, misleading, malicious, and a grossly misrepresentation of the facts leading to the arrest.
“Therefore, we write to set the record straight for the benefit of the public.
“Without prejudice to the police investigation that is ongoing, the true facts relate to the complaint/petition which we wrote to the Inspector General of Police on allegations bothering on extortion, criminal intimidation, and an attempt to obtain money by false pretence against a syndicate using GSM numbers and email addresses.
“This led to the ongoing investigation into the complaint by the police.
“In the course of the investigation, the police monitored the sustained communications between our clients and the syndicate, wherein the syndicate disclosed and gave Room Number 9, Summerset Continental Hotel, situated at No. 73 Usuma Street, Maitama, Abuja, as a place where our client would meet the syndicate’s agent for their own payments.
“On reaching the hotel and the room number, Mahdi Shehu was found therein at the scene with copies of documents that were used and sent to our client by the syndicate.
“Some of the documents which the police retrieved from Mahdi Shehu specifically lend credence to yet another petition of our client that bothers on hacking and financial improprieties affecting Hajiya Aisha Abubakar Malami.
“On account of the compromise of our client’s emails, sensitive information was unlawfully extracted from an email account, and the sum of over N19,000,000.00 (Nineteen Million Naira) was unlawfully taken out of our client’s account by the syndicate, which turns out to be a syndicate of which Mahdi was coordinating via a group chat which he joined through the following phone numbers, viz: +2348033316644 and +2348096626226.
“He came over to the said provided address to collect $500,000 (Five Hundred thousand US Dollar) at the instance of the syndicate”.
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