THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina, wanted over an alleged case of receiving stolen property.
Maina, 61, was listed on the EFCC’s wanted persons portal as the commission seeks information on his whereabouts.
The agency identified him as an indigene of Biu, Borno State, and urged anyone with information that could lead to his location to contact its offices across the country or the nearest police station and other security agencies.
The EFCC provided a telephone contact and email address through which information on Maina could be submitted.
The latest declaration adds to Maina’s long-running legal battles with the anti-graft agency.
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The EFCC had previously declared him wanted in 2015 over allegations linked to pension biometric contracts involving former Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Steve Oronsaye, and two others.
At the time, the commission said Maina had been charged before the Federal High Court Abuja alongside Oronsaye and others on a 24-count charge bordering on procurement fraud and obtaining by false pretence.
The EFCC subsequently prosecuted Maina in a separate case involving alleged pension fraud and money laundering.
The commission accused him of receiving about N1.82 billion through a Fidelity Bank account and allegedly using an account operated in his sister’s name to divert pension funds.
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Maina was arrested in Niger Republic on November 30, 2020, after he stopped attending proceedings in the pension fraud trial and his bail was revoked.
He was returned to Nigeria on December 3, 2020, following a joint operation involving Nigerian and Nigerien security authorities.
In November 2021, the Federal High Court Abuja convicted Maina on a 12-count charge involving money laundering, fictitious bank accounts and fraud.
Justice Okon Abang sentenced him to a total of 61 years imprisonment, with the terms running concurrently.
The court also ordered Maina to refund N1 billion to the Federal Government. His company, Common Input Property and Investment Ltd, was ordered to refund N183 million and $223,000.
The Court of Appeal upheld the conviction in May 2023.
Maina was later released from Kuje prison after serving his sentenceHe is also facing a separate criminal trial before the FCT High Court in Asokoro.
The EFCC is prosecuting him alongside Ann Igwe Olachi on a nine-count charge involving the alleged receipt of stolen funds totalling N738.61 million.
The defendants were arraigned in 2019, but proceedings have been delayed by a series of legal applications. At a hearing in February 2026, Justice Abubakar Kutigi expressed frustration over the repeated delays after Maina’s new lawyer, Emmanuel Wuyi, requested additional time to study the case.
The judge also questioned the number of lawyers who had appeared for Maina and the repeated applications challenging the court’s jurisdiction and seeking a stay of proceedings.
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The latest EFCC wanted notice concerns an allegation of receiving stolen property. The commission has not provided further public details on the specific property involved or the circumstances surrounding the allegation
