The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested Faisal Maina, son of former chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, and handed him over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Security sources disclosed that Faisal’s arrest adopted intelligence indicating that he had secretly returned to Nigeria.
“His arrest followed credible intelligence which indicated that Faisal had secretly returned to the country,” a supply mentioned.
The supply added that DSS operatives tracked and arrested him within the Karsana space of Abuja earlier than transferring him to the EFCC.
Faisal had been on the run since 2020 after the EFCC arraigned him on a three-count cost bordering on cash laundering, in accordance with PUNCH Online.
In October 2021, the Federal High Court in Abuja convicted him on cash laundering fees and sentenced him to 14 years’ imprisonment.
The trial choose, Justice Okon Abang, held that the EFCC had established that Faisal operated a fictitious checking account with United Bank for Africa (UBA), via which his father allegedly laundered N58.1 million.
The courtroom mentioned the cash was deposited into an account operated within the identify of “Alhaji Faisal Farm 2” and withdrawn by Faisal and his father between October 2013 and June 2019.
In November 2022, the Court of Appeal upheld Faisal’s conviction however lowered his sentence from 14 years to seven years, ruling that the trial courtroom shouldn’t have imposed the utmost sentence on a first-time offender.
His father, Abdulrasheed Maina, served an eight-year jail sentence on the Kuje Correctional Centre in Abuja for laundering N2 billion in pension funds.
He was launched earlier in 2026 however was subsequently declared wished over an alleged case of receiving stolen property.
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