JUST-IN: Drama As Judge Withdraws from $42.48m Ecobank Fraud Trial Involving Briton, Indians

Justice Akintayo Aluko of the Federal High Court in Lagos has stepped down from the ongoing $42.48 million fraud case involving a British citizen and two Indian nationals accused of defrauding Ecobank Plc through a failed rice importation transaction.

The decision followed concerns raised by the judge over a petition filed against him during the course of the proceedings.

The case involves British national Marcus Wade and Indian nationals Prem Garg and Devashish Garg, alongside their firms, Wilben Trade Limited and Agrico Agbe Limited....... .