A High Court in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja has granted bail to a former National Security Adviser, retired Colonel Sambo Dasuki, and four others being tried over alleged money laundering.
Justice Husseini Baba Yusuf granted the bail to the accused persons in the sum of N250 million.
The bail was premised on the condition that each of them will produce a surety who must be a serving or retired civil servant not lower than the rank of a director.
Justice Yusuf ordered that the civil servants must also show possession of a property within the FCT worth the same amount.
The others arraigned and granted with Dasuki are a former Director of Finance in the Office of the National Security Adviser, Shuaibu Salisu; a former Group General Manager of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Aminu Baba Kusa; and two firms, Acacia Holdings Limited and Reliance Reference Hospital.
All the accused were also requested to deposit their international passports with the court registrar.
They are to also required to bring to the attention of the court any travel arrangement they may want to make outside the FCT.
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