Alleged drug trafficking: FBI finally submits Tinubu’s records to US Judge Beryl Howell

The Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, has submitted records relating to President Bola Tinubu’s 1993 drug-trafficking and money-laundering lawsuit to Beryl Howell, a justice of the US District Court for the District of Columbia.

Peoples Gazette reports that the FBI hand-delivered the records to the tribunal on Friday and requested that they stay nether seal for the judge’s review.

The submission followed a tribunal bid directing the FBI to merchandise records relating to Tinubu aft the bureau missed respective deadlines successful a Freedom of Information Act, FOIA, lawsuit filed by transparency campaigner Aaron Greenspan.

Greenspan filed the FOIA petition successful 2023 and worked with Nigerian writer David Hundeyin to question entree to the records.

The FBI submitted the documents nether seal connected August 28, 2026, for an ex parte, successful camera review, successful compliance with a infinitesimal bid issued by Judge Howell connected August 20.

The justice had reportedly fixed the FBI August 28 arsenic the last deadline to comply with the bid aft expressing concerns implicit the bureau’s repeate...