The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, on Tuesday asserted that he has been executing the anti-corruption war in the country since 2015 when he was appointed without any instance of interference from the country’s political leadership.
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Magu said the operations had resulted in the arrest of 167 Nigerians for alleged computer-related frauds and recovery of four exotic cars, plots of land in choice areas in Lagos and a property in Abuja.
The Judge had on July 5, 2019 granted the interim forfeiture of the properties, following an ex parte application filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Mutiu Agboke, the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Oyo State, made the disclosure on in Ibadan during a thank-you visit to the Ibadan Zonal Office of the anti-graft agency.
Although investigations have not been concluded, it is suspected that the deceased, Williams Oyibogare, died of suicide because two bottles of a pesticide, Sniper, were found in his home located in the Giwa Amu area along Airport Road.
The suspects and vessels were handed over to the EFCC by the Nigerian Navy Ship Pathfinder for further investigation and possible prosecution.
The Federal High Court Abuja, on Thursday, restated its earlier order over plans by the EFCC and the Attorney-General of the Federation to confiscate the assets and property belonging to the immediate-past Governor Abdulazeez Yari of Zamfara.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission says it has mounted surveillance for 10 of the 78 Nigerians from the South-East, allegedly involved in the $3 billion scam.
The Head, Kaduna Zonal office of the EFCC, Mailafia Yakubu, disclosed this at a news conference in Kaduna on Wednesday.
The Head, Enugu Zonal Office of the commission, Usman Imam, disclosed this on Wednesday in Enugu while briefing newsmen on the activities of the commission in the last eight months.
The Uyo Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday arrested six suspected internet fraudsters, who specialize in hacking into Facebook accounts of unsuspecting victims and defraud persons in the compromised accounts’ contact list.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abuja Zonal Office, has recovered over N423 million from January to August.
An Ilorin, Kwara State-based legal practitioner, Sulyman Abaya, insisted that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission must tender a public apology to him for portraying him as a criminal in a defamatory mugshot and Press Release.
The EFCC said the case was still pending before the Port Harcourt Division of a Federal High Court in Rivers.
Magu, who spoke through Usman Imam, head of Enugu Office of the Commission, while receiving a delegation from the Enugu Branch of the apex bank, led by the Controller, Okonjo Chiedozie, noted the difficulty encountered by the zone in keeping recovered funds in the CBN vault.
The EFCC said this in a statement by its spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, on Tuesday.
The Benin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said it arrested no fewer than 113 internet fraud suspects in eight months through its ‘Operation Re-wire’.
The Kano Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has recovered 690,400 $and N550,692,362 million between January and August 2019.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Lagos office on August 30, 2019 secured the conviction of four internet fraudsters before Justice Hakeem Oshodi of the State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos.