Nigeria, Sept. 19 -- Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has denied being indicted by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) tribunal over a $500,000 payment made by Sunrise Power promoter Leno Adesanya to his then-wife, Jennifer Douglas Abubakar, in 2003.

But while rejecting the suggestion that the arbitration amounted to a corruption verdict against him, Atiku did not directly address several concerns raised by the tribunal about the payment, including Mr Adesanya's failure to provide documentary or independent witness evidence supporting his explanation that the transaction was a legitimate foreign-exchange deal.

The tribunal, in its final award in the long-running Mambilla arbitration, said the circumstances surrounding the pa...