Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has cleared the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu of all claims linking him to drugs and money laundering.
OsunDaily News reports that Fani-Kayode in a write-up titled “the obsessions of David Hundeyin” on his personal website on Saturday said, “the authorities in the FBI ‘found nothing’ after their investigation.”
The APC spokesman advanced that the seizure of the $460,000 wasn’t in relation to drugs or links to drug trafficking, adding that Tinubu was not indicted for any crime whatsoever.
OsunDaily News recall that Tinubu was slammed with alleged drug involvement and money laundering last week, and it attracted lots of reaction from different quarters.
A said document released by the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, which was making the round alleged that the about 30-year-old case led to Tinubu’s forfeiture of $460,000 to the US government.
However, Fani-Kayode in his write up disclosed that “The $460,000 was seized only as a consequence of the IRS claiming and asserting that he (Tinubu) had not paid tax on his numerous American investments.
“Tinubu chose not to challenge or dispute that claim and assertion by the IRS even though he was perfectly within his rights to do so and hence he willingly forfeited that money.
“The seizure of the USD 460,000 had NOTHING [sic] to do with drugs or links to drug trafficking.
“Rather it had EVERYTHING to do with tax and it was the IRS that claimed it.
“The FBI investigated Tinubu for links to drugs and laundering drug money and they found NOTHING.
“He came out clean. Most of the money they originally seized was returned.
“The money that was not returned had NOTHING to do with drugs.
“Tinubu is a clean, wholesome, hard-working and innocent man and those making these allegations are simply trying to derail his presidential ambition.
“They are also filled with hate and they resent his great successes in life.”
