The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has obtained an order to retrieve all the documents it tendered as exhibits in the 4.6billion naira money laundering trial of a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode.

The EFCC obtained the order from Justice Daniel Osiagor of the Federal High Court in Lagos to enable it re-file the charges before the Abuja division of the court.

The decision to take the case from Lagos to Abuja followed the judgment of the Court of Appeal, which held that the Abuja division of the Federal High Court, rather than Lagos, has the jurisdiction to hear the case.

The EFCC charged Fani-Kayode alongside a former Minister of State for Finance, Nenandi Usman; a former Chairman of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria, Yusuf Danjuma, and a company, Jointrust Dimensions Nigeria Ltd.