Former National Security Adviser, NSA, Sambo Dasuki, has been granted bail by an Abuja High Court.
Dasuki was granted bail alongside four others standing trial for alleged money laundering and criminal breach of trust.
The others are former director of finance at the office of the NSA, Shuaibu Salisu; a former Group General Manager of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Aminu Baba Kusa; and two firms, Acacia Holdings Limited and Reliance Reference Hospital.
The accused were taken to court to answer 19-count charge levelled against them by the Federal Goverment.
According to Justice Husseini Baba Yusuf, who granted the suspects bail, they must produce a surety each who must be a serving or retired civil servant not lower than the rank of a director and the sum of N250 million.
The civil servant must also show possession of a property within the FCT worth the same amount.
All the accused were also told to deposit copies of their international passports with the court registrar and must also notify the court of any travel arrangement outside Abuja.
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