{"id":70749,"date":"2025-07-16T13:51:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T13:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70749"},"modified":"2025-07-16T13:51:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T13:51:43","slug":"court-clears-fayose-of-money-laundering-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/16\/court-clears-fayose-of-money-laundering-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Clears Fayose of Money Laundering Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A Federal High Court in Lagos has discharged and acquitted former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, of allegations of money laundering and fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke, ruling on a no-case submission on Tuesday, held that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), failed to establish a prima facie case to warrant Fayose entering a defence.<\/p>\n<p>The EFCC had re-arraigned Fayose alongside his company, Spotless Investment Limited, on an 11-count charge of laundering N6.9 billion allegedly committed during his tenure as governor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu &nbsp; A Federal High Court in Lagos has discharged and acquitted former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, of allegations of money laundering and fraud. Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke, ruling on a no-case submission on Tuesday, held that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), failed to establish a prima facie case to warrant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":70750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70752,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70749\/revisions\/70752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}