Tinubu joins US request for more time to release records on drug trafficking allegations
The case against Tinubu The district court ordered US law enforcement agencies to release confidential information involving Mr Tinubu’s alleged involvement in drug trafficking during a “purported federal investigation in the 1990s” in April 2025.
President Bola Tinubu has joined a request by the US Department of Justice for a 10-day extension to respond to a court order over the release of records linking him to alleged drug trafficking.
The distict court’s order came about two years after an American, Aaron Greenspan, had filed a suit under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) against the Executive Office for US Attorneys, Department of State, Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) seeking information about a joint investigation into a Chicago heroin ring that operated in the 1990s.
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