The former Attorney-General, Mohammed Bello Adoke, has departed the United Arab Emirates for Nigeria after he was freed by the Interpol outpost in Dubai.
He had been arrested by Interpol on arrival in Dubai on the 11th of November when he went for his for medical check-up and summarily taken into custody.
His arrest followed an Interpol red alert which the Nigerian government had issued against him as part of the ongoing litigation over the controversial Malabu Oil deal.
But the UAE authorities freed him after Nigeria failed to provide legal basis and other requisite bilateral supports to justify his continued detention.
The arrest warrant upon which Adoke was arrested had long being nullified by the same judge that issued it. But the Nigerian government failed to update Interpol appropriately.
