Sahara Reporters investigations have alleged that Malami and his family has amassed "unexplained wealth" while Malami served as Attorney-General. The reports have outlined how Malami himself owns a hotel in Sokoto, four houses in Abuja, a school in Birnin Kebbi, and a hotel under construction in Abuja. Malami was also shown to have bought two houses for his sons in Birnin Kebbi and an event centre called Azbir Arena for one of his sons; both sons were also known to drive expensive cars and have no known work history. The Malami family also were seen leaving chartered private jets when arriving in Birnin Kebbi for a family wedding. After the publication of the initial reports in July 2020, Malami's lawyer, Sunday Ameh, wrote to Police Inspector General Mohammed Adamu to call for investigation into Sahara Reporters and its founder Omoyele Sowore. In August, Malami wrote to President Buhari, stating that his wealth had come from business and investments from prior to becoming AG. Malami claimed that he declared all assets in the assets declarations filed with the Code of Conduct Bureau upon appointment in 2015 and again upon re-appointment in 2019. Alleged diversion of recovered money In May 2021, Malami appeared before a House committee to answer for suspected diversion of recovered laundered money intended for the consolidated revenue account along with other alleged improprieties. Malami and his office were accused of improperly funding the office budget with around ₦800 billion of recovered looted money by several Representatives including committee chair Adejoro Adeogun. Malami denied his office received any money from the recovered money account and the Accountant General Ahmed Idris supported Malami, claiming that the consolidated revenue account and recovered loot account are all subsets of the same Treasury Single Account making it appear as if the funds were transferred to the AGF office. The next day, Adeogun and others continued questioning Malami, now about a reported illegal ₦2 billion payment from the Central Bank of Nigeria to Malami and an alleged request from Malami for "payment of approved solicitors’ fees" from the recovered loot account. Malami denied requesting payments from the recovered loot account, but did not comment on the ₦2 billion payment from the CBN. In August 2021, the Attorneys-General of all 36 states sued Malami, accusing him of failure to allocate recovered funds to the states. Interference in corruption investigations As Attorney-General, Malami has the power