{"id":3489,"date":"2024-11-27T11:53:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T11:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/?p=3489"},"modified":"2024-11-27T11:53:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T11:53:51","slug":"alleged-n110b-fraud-im-not-guilty-yahaya-bello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2024\/11\/27\/alleged-n110b-fraud-im-not-guilty-yahaya-bello\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged N110b fraud: I&#8217;m not guilty\u00a0  &#8211;\u00a0Yahaya Bello\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3483\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Yahaya-Bello-and-EFCC-750x430-1-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Yahaya-Bello-and-EFCC-750x430-1-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Yahaya-Bello-and-EFCC-750x430-1.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bello<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nBy Publisher<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Kindly share:<\/p>\n<p>Yahaya Bello, the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, on Wednesday pleaded not guilty to an alleged N110 billion fraud levelled against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nBello, who was arraigned on 16-count charge before Justice Maryanne Anenih of the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja had been arrested on Tuesday when he presented him to the headquarters of the anti-graft agency after several months of being on the run.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-governor had earlier been declared wanted by the Commission in April 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bello By Publisher Kindly share: Yahaya Bello, the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, on Wednesday pleaded not guilty to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,294,2,3],"tags":[531,246],"class_list":["post-3489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-entertainment-showbiz","category-news","category-politics","tag-economic-and-financial-crimes-commission","tag-yahaya-bello"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - 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