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SEATTLE (AP) — A Nigerian government official arrested in connection with Washington’s $650 million unemployment fraud will remain in jail until his trial, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Abidemi Rufai, a Senior Special Assistant to Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, who is charged in Washington state over unemployment scam, has been
The authorities argued that if Rufai escapes to Nigeria, extradition will be extraordinarily difficult or impossible because of his ties to the Nigerian government.
of Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, maintains that he is a man of integrity. Mr Rufai said he would not have been appointed as a senior aide to Mr Abiodun if he was not morally upright. This claim was contained in his filing at a U.S. court where he is battling to have the suspended bail earlier granted him restored. The suspect has been in detention since his arrestat John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on May 14 for pending $350,000 fraud charges instituted against him. Although Mr Rufai was granted bail by a magistrate judge of the District Court of Eastern New York on...
Abidemi Rufai argues through his lawyer that he is entitled to bail because his case is not one designated for “mandatory...