Court Accepts Nine Exhibits Filed Against Malami And Family In Ongoing Case

According to IReporter Online, a Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, and presided over by Justice Joyce Abdulmalik on Monday, April 20, 2026, admitted nine documentary exhibits tendered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the ongoing trial involving former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), his wife, Hajia Bashir Asabe, and his son, Abubakar Abdulaziz Malami.

The defendants are standing trial on an amended 16-count charge bordering on conspiracy, procurement, concealment, and laundering of proceeds of unlawful activities allegedly amounting to ₦8,713,923,759.49, in violation of the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022.

The EFCC presented the exhibits through its fourth prosecution witness, Mashelia Arhyel Bata, a compliance officer with Zenith Bank Plc, who testified that the commission had requested account records linked to the defendants and several related companies, including Rayhaan Hotels Limited, Rayhaan Bustan Agro Allied Limited, Nashab Limited, Golden Age Global Ventures, and Rahamaniyya Properties Limited.

Bata told the court that the bank complied by submitting both soft and hard copies of the requested documents, confirming under oath that the materials tendered comprised nine exhibits. The documents, covering transactions between July 19, 2024, and March 12, 2026, were subsequently admitted as Exhibits D1 to D9 despite an objection from defence counsel, J. B. Daudu (SAN), who raised concerns over the dates.

Further in his testimony, the witness detailed financial activities across accounts linked to Malami and his law firm, A.A. Malami & Co, noting that the accounts were active between 2015 and 2023 and involved significant inflows and outflows over the years.

He disclosed that between 2016 and 2023, one of the accounts recorded total credits of ₦383,637,215.55, while from 2012 to 2015, credits stood at ₦560,506,465.12. On the debit side, ₦384,322,120.85 was recorded between 2016 and 2023, while ₦571,891,174.08 was debited between 2012 and 2015.

The witness also highlighted several high-value transactions, including ₦194.7 million received on November 11, 2020 from New Horizons Limited, ₦622.5 million received on June 24, 2022 from Rayhaan Bustan Agro Allied Limited, and multiple ₦250 million inflows from Rayhaan Hotels Limited in July 2022, as well as a ₦500 million transaction in December 2022 linked to Rayhaan Bustan Agro Allied Limited.

The EFCC further told the court that the financial records formed part of its evidence in tracing alleged suspicious transactions running into billions of naira.