Nigeria, Oct. 11 -- Mars Aviation Limited, a firm associated with businessman Bashir Haske, has denied any role in an alleged Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) fraud.

A Federal High Court in Abuja, presided over by a judge, Musa Liman, had earlier granted an interim order freezing the company's Fidelity Bank account following an application by the EFCC.

The order stemmed from an ex parte motion filed on 1 July by EFCC counsel Geraldine Ofulue, with the suit number: FHC/ABJ/CS/1299/2025, in which the agency claimed the account was tied to suspected money laundering and criminal misappropriation.

The Nation Newspaper reported that the EFCC told the court that intelligence reports linked payments from NNPCL to the compan...