The APC Presidential candidate faced public scrutiny for his alleged involvement in a drug trafficking case in Chicago in the early 1990s.
The former Lagos State governor has refused to confirm, deny, or comment on these allegations, fueling speculation that they may be true.
However, Bola Tinubu has spoken extensively about his background in corporate accounting, consultancy and pro-democracy activism.
According to Peoples Gazette, the 56-page document released by the district court’s headquarters in Chicago did not include crucial new details, but it further confirmed snippets of the matter that had been shared spontaneously by the media and journalists.
The latest certified copies released by the US court, obtained on August 10, claimed that Tinubu and two others named K.O. Tinubu and Alhaji Mogati were involved in banking proceeds of illicit drugs and money laundering with Heritage Bank and Citibank.
It was not immediately clear whether or not ‘Alhaji Mogati’ was a misspelling of Alhaja Abibatu Mogaji, Tinubu’s late foster mother.
The United States government sought forfeiture of narcotics proceeds from Bola Tinubu in July 1993. The matter was settled through a compromise reached between Tinubus and US authorities, with Tinubus being asked to keep the money in the Heritage Bank account while forfeiting the $460,000 in the Citibank account.
On September 21, 1993, a federal judge dismissed the case with prejudice, effectively barring all parties from litigating the case again. However, it was unclear whether Nigerian authorities could still charge Tinubu in Nigerian courts in connection with the same case.
