The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has recovered an additional sum of N900 million for the National Health Insurance Scheme.
The spokesman for the commission, Wilson Uwujaren, made the disclosure in a statement he issued on Saturday.
Uwujaren said the sum was part of money some Deposit Money Banks fraudulently withheld since 2015 and refused to remit into the Treasury Single Account for the NHIS.
According to him, the recovered sum was released to the NHIS on February 8.
He noted that the commission had on February 10, 2022 released to the NHIS N1.5 billion recovered from the banks.
The commission had also on August 5, 2022 released N1.4 billion to the scheme.
The Executive Secretary of the NHIS, Prof. Muhammad Nasir Sambo, had on July 29, 2021 praised the EFCC for assisting scheme in the recovery of funds trapped in commercial banks.