Ajudua is facing trial for allegedly defrauding a former Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Ishaya Bamaiyi, to the tune of $8.4 million.
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibadan Zonal Office has arrested one Kehinde Olumide Agbabiaka, a sales agent of Fidelity Bank Plc.
Magu made this known as the Deputy Head of Maiduguri Zonal Office of the EFCC, Hamza Ridwan, represented him on a live Hausa programme of the Maiduguri-based Radio Nigeria Peace FM.
Fayose is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over N6.9billion fraud and money laundering charges.
The Command gave the advice on Sunday in a statement through the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bala Elkana.
The anti-graft agency also said the convicts were caught with documents issued by the US Court of Appeal for the Armed Forces, purportedly signed by Lieutenant General T. T. Luis Rodulf, and US Army Judge, Fort Knox, among others.
Justice J. K. Omotosho of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Friday ordered a former Governor of Imo State, Chief Rochas Okorocha, and his family not to sell or alienate any of the properties that were the subject of an interim order of the court pending the conclusion of investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Sokoto Zonal Office on Friday arrested Abdullahi Sa’idu, Director General of Sokoto Marshal Agency, and Bashar Dodo-Iya, an Accountant with the agency, for alleged diversion of N10 million meant for the payment of the salaries of workers.
The monitoring role played by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to check vote-buying in the 2019 general elections has been commended by the Independent National Electoral Commission in Kwara State.
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.
The EFCC charged Edem with making false statement to a public officer.
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.