The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is indicting Kalu together with his previous Commissioner for Finance, Ude Udeogo and a Company, Slok Nigeria Ltd on charges of N7.2 billion misrepresentation.
EFCC had on Oct. 31, 2016, favored a 34-tally charge, verging on N3.2 billion misrepresentation against the denounced.
The charges were, in any case, accordingly changed to 39 tallies.
They had each argued not liable to the charges and were allowed safeguards.
At the keep going deferred date on Nov. 5, Kalu was additionally missing for his preliminary and barrier direct had educated the court that he was away for restorative treatment in Germany.
Equity Idris, who is perched on a fiat to finish up the preliminary, had then deferred the case until Monday for the continuation of preliminary and requested that Kalu comes back to the nation inside seven days from Nov. 5 to stand preliminary.
The court had stated: "In the light of the total of this case, and in light of a legitimate concern for equity, I am set up to allow the primary respondent a last deferment in regard of this issue.
On Monday, Idris, denied Kalu's safeguard, following his inability to show up in court for preliminary as booked.
The judge requested that upon an arrival of Kalu from his supposed restorative trek, he should submit himself to the EFCC, coming up short which a request will be made for his capture.
"I am compelled to deny the safeguard conceded to the principal respondent; the main litigant is, be that as it may, allowed to proceed with his restorative treatment abroad, unharassed by law authorization organizations.
"Upon his arrival to the nation, he should at the purpose of passage, surrender his global identification and other important heading out records to the EFCC;
he will submit himself to the EFCC inside 24 hours of his arrival, coming up short which he will be rearrested and kept by the EFCC.
"Give me a chance to express that there is no uncertainty that the principal respondent is qualified for and has a privilege to life, he has a privilege to look for medicinal treatment inside and outside the shores of Nigeria; this privilege is additionally ensured by the African Charter on Human and People's Right.
"In appreciating this right, the main respondent has an obligation to pursue fair treatment of law; for this situation, the primary litigant acted outside the domain of the law, and he is relied upon to be managed by the law.
"This court is a court of value, however he who looks for value must do value; I discover no motivation behind why I ought to withdraw from the law, this court is an equivalent distributor of equity, " the court held.
The court dismissed the case until Dec 3.
In the charge, the denounced were asserted to have submitted the offenses between August 2001 and October 2005.
Kalu was affirmed to have used his organization to hold in the record of a First Inland bank, now FCMB, the total of N200 million.
The entirety is affirmed to have framed piece of assets illicitly got from the coffers of the Abia State Government.
In one of the checks, his organization (Slok Nig Ltd) and one Emeka Abone who is said to be everywhere, were likewise claimed to have held in the organization's record the whole of N200 million, for the benefit of the principal blamed.
In tallies one to 10, the charged were claimed to have held about N2.5 billion in various records, which reserves were said to have a place with the Abia State Government.
In total, in every one of the tallies, the blamed were claimed to have redirected over N7.2 billion from the Abia State government's treasury amid Kalu's residency as senator.
The offenses were said to have repudiated the arrangements of Sections 15(6), 16, and 21 of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2005.
It likewise repudiated the arrangements of the Money Laundering Act of 1995 as altered by the Amendment Act No. 9 of 2002 and Section 477 of the Criminal Code Act, Laws of the Federation, 1990.
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