The Nigerian Navy handed over a barge laden with unspecified quantity of adulterated diesel and abandoned by suspected smugglers to the EFCC on Friday in Port Harcourt. The barge was handed over to the EFCC by Cdr. Suleiman Mohammed, First Lieutenant, NNS Pathfinder Mohammed said the suspected smugglers abandoned the barge, MVJ Favour 1, and fled on sighting Navy gunboats on routine patrol at the creeks in Rivers on Oct. 13. “The suspects fled when NNS Pathfinder patrol gunboat intercepted the barge, which it suspected of engaging in illegal oil…
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Dasuki’s co-defendant claimed N2.2bn was spent on prayers against B/Haram – Witness
An Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) investigating officer, Adariko Michael, yesterday said that one of the defendants standing trial for arms procurement fraud told the commission that N2.2 billion was spent on prayers in Nigeria and Saudi Arabia to win the war against insurgency in the country. Michael, who was giving evidence as the first prosecution witness in the trial of former National Security Adviser,c for alleged two $2billion dollars arms deal fraud, said N750million was allegedly transferred from the ONSA special account to Reliance Referral Hospital Limited’s account…
Read MoreEFCC re-arraigns ex-NIMASA D-G over alleged N156m fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), yesterday re-arraigned a former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, (NIMASA), Haruna Jauro, in a Federal High Court, in Lagos for alleged N156.4 million money laundering. The defendant was arraigned alongside one Dauda Bawa and Thlumbau Enterprises Ltd. on nineteen counts bordering on money laundering before Justice Chuka Obiozor. The defendants were first arraigned before Justice Mojisola Olatoregun (now retired) on April 12, 2016 on 19 counts bordering on N304.1 million money laundering. They had pleaded not guilty to the charges…
Read MoreJust In! Alleged N5bn fraud: EFCC arrests former FIRS Chairman, Tunde Fowler
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) has arrested a former Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service,(FIRS)Babatunde Fowler, over an alleged N5bn fraud perpetrated under his watch.According to Sahara Reporters,Fowler, a long-time ally of the national leader of the All Progressives Congress,(APC) Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is currently being interrogated at the Lagos office of the EFCC. Details later…
Read MoreCourt fixes Oct. 19 for Alleged N2bn fraud Maina’s trial
A Federal High Court has fixed October 19, for continuation of trial of Abdulrasheed Maina, ex-Chairman, Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT). The registry gave the date, following the absence of Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja and Maina on Monday. Also, the trial of a Briton, James Nolan, over his alleged complicity in the 9.6 billion dollars judgment against Nigeria in the Process and Industrial Developments Limited (P&ID) scam. The court registrar announced that Monday’s sitting would not be holding because Justice Abang was attending a seminar. Maina had, on…
Read MoreFraud: Court freezes Lagos Speaker, Obasa’s accounts
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Thursday ordered the interim freezing of three bank accounts belonging to the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa. The three accounts domiciled in Standard Chartered Bank and the funds placed in them are to be temporarily frozen pending the conclusion of the investigation and possible prosecution of the allegations of fraud made against the Speaker. Justice Nicholas Oweibo made the order pursuant to a motion ex-parte filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC which is investigating…
Read MoreLawyer to Salami panel: ‘I was procured to nail Magu’
An Abuja-based lawyer, Victor Giwa, says he was procured to nail Ibrahim Magu, suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The presidential panel headed by Ayo Salami, retired president of the appeal court, is probing the activities of the agency under Magu. Magu was alleged to have mishandled recovered loot and sold seized assets to his associates. In a petition, one Donald Wokoma, accused Magu of attempting to extort him of N75 million through Giwa, his former lawyer. In his testimony before the committee, Wokoma reportedly…
Read MoreAlleged Money Laundering: EFCC files amended charges against ex- AGF Adoke
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has filed an additional seven charges against a former Attorney-General of the Federation, Mohammed Adoke, over money laundering allegations involving about N400 million. The trial of the ex-AGF who was re-arraigned alongside an Abuja-based businessman, Aliyu Abubakar, before Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja on June 17, 2020, was expected to begin on Monday, but it was stalled due to the amended charges. The initial charge contained seven counts, with six of them relating to Adoke. At the resumed…
Read MoreNDDC, EFCC, NSITF Corruption Cases: Buhari frowns at planned mass protest by Labour
The Presidency has frowned at the reported plan by the Trade Union Congress, TUC, to embark on a nationwide protest over the alleged President Buhari’s “inaction over the high-level of corruption uncovered at some Federal Government’s commissions. It would recalled that both the Executive and Legislative arms are currently investigating alleged cases of misconduct at the Niger Delta Development Agency, NDDC, the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF, and the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC. Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity in a statement…
Read MoreNDDC, EFCC, NSITF Corruption Cases: Labour tells Nigerians to prepare for nationwide protest
Angered by the inaction of President Muhammadu Buhari and the anti-corruption agencies over the high-level of corruption uncovered at the Niger Delta Development Agency (NDDC), the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) and the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), labour has resolved to embark on a nationwide protest by next week. Speaking during a media chat with journalists in Abuja over the weekend, the President of Trade Union Congress (TUC), Comrade Quadri Olaleye, has, therefore, called on all workers and Nigerians to prepare for a nationwide protest over unresolved…
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