Alleged drug trafficking: Tinubu moves to block release of FBI files

President Bola Tinubu has asked a United States national tribunal to disregard a caller effort by American transparency activistic Aaron Greenspan to present caller records successful a suit seeking entree to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) files linked to a past narcotics probe.

The objection was contained successful a filing dated October 15, 2026, earlier the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, wherever Greenspan is seeking the merchandise of documents relating to investigations involving Tinubu and others successful the precocious 1980s and aboriginal 1990s.

Court documents amusement that Tinubu’s lawyers opposed Greenspan’s petition for the tribunal to instrumentality judicial announcement of further nationalist records concerning alleged hacking activities, transgression proceedings and media reports.

Greenspan had filed the exertion connected October 8, seeking to present the materials to enactment a abstracted petition for permission to behaviour constricted find from Tinubu.

Tinubu’s ineligible squad said the materials did not found the transportation Greenspan was seeking to found betwixt the alleged hacking activities and his ongoing ineligible battle.

They besides faulted the timing of the application, saying it came much than a week aft G...