Nigeria: Prevent Release of My Fbi, Dea Records, Tinubu Tells Us Court
[Daily Trust] President Bola Tinubu has asked a United States federal court to block the further release of records linked to past investigations involving him, arguing that disclosure would violate his privacy rights.
Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu has requested a US federal court to halt the further release of FBI and DEA records related to his past investigations, citing violations of his privacy rights. Tinubu, intervening in the case, filed a request with the US District Court for the District of Columbia, urging the court to reject a motion for summary judgment filed by Aaron Greenspan, founder of PlainSite.
Greenspan had submitted 12 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests seeking records connected to a Chicago heroin trafficking case from the early 1990s, which named Tinubu among four individuals. In April 2025, US District Judge Beryl Howell ruled that the FBI and DEA had improperly refused to confirm or deny the existence of records relating to Tinubu, ordering the agencies to search for and process non-exempt documents responsive to Greenspan's requests.
The agencies subsequently released thousands of pages, with some redactions and a Vaughn index outlining reasons for withholding specific information. Tinubu's legal team argued that FOIA is intended to promote transparency about government operations, not to provide private information about individuals contained in government records.
They cited a 1989 US Supreme Court decision and invoked FOIA Exemption 7(C), which protects law-enforcement records where disclosure could constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, as well as provisions of the US Privacy Act.
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