Nigeria, March 24 -- The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on Tuesday arraigned former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai for alleged severance pay corruption and years-long fraudulent dollar-denominated cash deposits in his bank account.

The commission arraigned him before the Federal High Court in Kaduna on 10 charges, accusing him of violating Nigeria's anti-money laundering law.

He and his co-defendant, Joel Adoga, pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Following the defendants' pleas of not-guilty, the trial judge, Ridwan Aikawa, ordered their remand in the custody of ICPC, where Mr El-Rufai had been held for over one month.

The charges involve alleged inflated N579.7 severance pays and year...