Tag: Alleged fraud

Police arrest ex-NATCOM DG for alleged fraudulent activities

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Officials of the Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT) of the Nigeria Police Force have arrested the Director-General of the National Commission against the Proliferation of Arms, Light Weapons and Pipeline Vandalism, (NATCOM), Adejare Adegbenro, for alleged fraudulent activities. According to reports, Adegbenro was arrested and detained in Abuja on Friday night, saying his arrest was sequel to a result of an “extensive investigation into the alleged illegal fraudulent activities, impersonation of government officials and involvement in gun-running.”. Sources close to the investigation said that Adegbenro and his associates had…

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EFCC arrests Sirika over alleged N8bn Nigeria Air fraud

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), has arrested former Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, over an ongoing N8,069,176,864.00 money-laundering probe. The indicted former Minister of Aviation arrived at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command of the EFCC yesterday.. Following his arrival at the anti-graft agency’s Abuja office, Sirika met with EFCC investigators to answer questions on alleged fraudulent contracts awarded by him to a company owned by his younger sibling. Impeccable anti-graft sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak, confirmed the…

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Alleged N80bn fraud: EFCC declares Yahaya Bello ‘wanted’

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), has declared Yahaya Bello, former governor of Kogi State, as ‘wanted’. In a post on its official Facebook page, the anti-graft Commission said Bello is wanted in connection with alleged economic and financial crimes amounting to N80.2 billion. ”Anybody with information as to his whereabouts should report immediately to the Commission or the nearest Police Station”, EFCC wrote. Recall that Bello was whisked away from his Abuja home yesterday by his successor, Governor Usman Ododo, while EFCC operatives laid siege to his residence.…

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Alleged Fraud: “How I collected $3m cash for Emefiele” – CBN employee

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A Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) employee, Monday Osazuwa, yesterday, told an Ikeja Special Offences Court how the former apex bank governor, Godwin Emefiele, on different occasions, directed him to collect three million dollars cash in tranches. Osasuwa, while being led in evidence by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo (SAN), said he was a dispatch rider in Zenith Bank in 2001 before he joined the CBN in 2014. Osasuwa said he joined the apex bank as a senior supervisor in 2014. The witness said Emefiele…

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Alleged N1.2bn fraud: Tinubu suspends Rural Electrification Agency MD, 3 Directors

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President Bola Tinubu has suspended the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Rural Electrification Agency, Ahmad Salihijo, alongside three Executive Directors of the Agency, indefinitely. In an issued statement, signed by Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, yesterday, the State House revealed that “this followed new findings unearthed during a comprehensive investigation into the financial activities of the Rural Electrification Agency”. The statement is titled, ‘President Tinubu suspends Rural Electrification Agency managing director and team from office’. Aside from Salihijo, the President also suspended the Executive Director,…

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Alleged N40bn fraud: Obiano asks court to quash charges against him

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The immediate-past Governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to quash the N40bn corruption charges brought against him by the Federal Government. His request is contained in a new motion on notice filed before Justice Inyang Ekwo and brought pursuant to provisions of the 1999 Constitution and the Administration of the Criminal Justice Act 2015. In the grounds for the motion, Obiano claimed that there is a subsisting appeal by the Anambra State government challenging the authority of the Economic and Financial Crimes…

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Alleged N7.6bn Fraud: Appeal Court strikes out FG’s suit seeking ex-Abia Gov. Kalu’s retrial

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The Court of Appeal in Abuja has struck out bid by the Federal Government to begin fresh prosecution of a former Abia State governor, Orji Uzor Kalu, in the N7.6 billion fraud and money laundering case brought against him. The appellate court threw away the Government’s move in a judgment delivered in Abuja by Justice Joseph Oyewole yesterday. Oyewole held that the record of appeal brought by the Federal Government was incompetent and unreliable for any court to use to grant its request. Among others, Justice Oyewole said that the…

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Alleged N4bn theft: Obiano challenges Abuja court’s jurisdiction

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The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has fixed March 7 to hear a Motion filed by former Anambra State governor, Willie Obiano. Obiano is challenging the court’s jurisdiction to hear the alleged N4 billion fraud charge filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC). The former governor was arraigned on January 24 on a nine-count charge bordering on alleged money laundering to N4 billion. Obiano, however, pleaded ‘not guilty’ to all counts when the charge was read to him. At the resumed hearing of the…

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N70bn Zamfara Govt. fraud: EFCC to revisit case against Bello Matawalle

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it will, under the present leadership, revisit N70 billion money laundering case against former Zamfara State Governor, and Minister of State Defence. The Commission specifically said all high-profile cases left behind by the former EFCC chairman, Bello Matawalle, have been reviewed. EFCC Acting Director of Public Affairs, Wilson Uwujaren, disclosed this yesterday, when a group, under the aegis of Zamfara Alternative Forum (ZAF) protested at the Commission’s headquarters in Abuja. The Zamfara Alternative Forum yesterday, stormed the EFCC Headquarters in protest, urging…

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Alleged N37.1bn fraud: EFCC detains Buhari’s ex-humanitarian affairs minister, Sadiyya

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has detained a former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiyya Umar-Farouq, for questioning over allegations of corruption in the handling of N37.1 billion social intervention funds during her tenure. Mrs. Umar-Farouq arrived at the headquarters of the Commission in Abuja to honour an earlier invitation over the pending case yesterday morning. She posted via her X handle at 10.17 a.m. on Monday that she had just arrived at the commission’s office. “I have, at my behest, arrived at the…

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