A United States District Court document released by the Northern District of Illinois has indicted Bola Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate over his involvement in drug trafficking.
The document which contains a judgement docketed on July 26, 1993, and certified by Thomas O. Burton, clerk of the court, indicted Tinubu for heroin trafficking in the state of Illinois through a proxy organisation owned by Adegboyega Mueez Akande and subsequently forfeited the proceeds of the crime to the US government.
The funds, which were held by First Heritage Bank and Citibank in trust for Tinubu were forfeited to the United States government for being proceeds of drug-related offences.
Details from the court papers show that Michael J. Shepard, the attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, said in 1993 that the court has jurisdiction over the case brought to it by special agent Kevin Moss.
According to the document, the monies held in those forfeited accounts were proceeds from white heroin drug operations operated by Aknade and his partners.
Akande had a strong and well-connected narcotics business, whose proceeds were substantial and kept in the forfeited bank accounts, the document shows.
The affidavit revealed that the defendant’s—Tinubu funds—represented a substantial part of the proceeds from this operation or property involved in money laundering.
Judge Michael gave his judgment based on evidence that the funds belonging to Tinubu stashed in his Citibank and First Heritage Bank accounts were proceeds from Akande and other narcotraffickers’ heroin operations.
“As is stated more fully in the attached affidavit, beginning as early as 1988, Adegboyega Mueez Akande, with others, operated a organization which distributed white heroin, a controlled substance under Title 21 of the United States Code.”
