JUSTICE Abubakar Hussaini Musa of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court, February 7, 2024, vacated an earlier order of the court directing the Inspector-General of Police to arrest the Director of Proceeds of Crime Department of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Aliyu Usman for disobeying the ruling …
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OPERATIVES of the Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested three persons in connection with suspected currency racketeering. The suspects: Musa Gideon, Abdul Seidu Adamu and Justine Musa were arrested along Yakubu Gowon way, Kaduna on Wednesday, February 7, 2024 while trying to …
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THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has raised a Special Task Force in all its Zonal Commands for the enforcement of extant laws against currency mutilation and dollarization of the economy. The Task Force, inaugurated by the Executive Chairman of the Commission, Ola Olukoyede, was raised to protect the …
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THE Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Monday, February 5, 2024 arraigned a businessman, Alexander Adeniran Babarinde from Oro-Ago in Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State over alleged involvement in contract scam, obtaining money under false pretence and forgery. Babarinde was arraigned by the …
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JUSTICE Chigozie Sergius Onah of the Federal High Court sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State has convicted and sentenced three internet fraudsters to different jail terms for offences bordering on criminal impersonation, internet fraud and possession of fraudulent documents. The convicts Abraham Itoro Sunday, Ezea Chidera Charles and Udoh Christopher …
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THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested the General Overseer of Faith on the Rock Ministry International, Apostle Theophilus Ebonyi, for allegedly defrauding church members and other Nigerians using fake grants from the Ford Foundation to the tune of N1. 3 billion. EFCC’s spokesman, Dele Oyewale, in a …
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THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, says it has recovered a total of N70 billion within 100 days, between October 2023 and January 19, 2024. Details of the recovery were outlined in an EFCC document titled, ‘Operations and Recoveries’. The document revealed that between October 2023 and January 19, …
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THE Gombe Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, has secured the conviction and sentencing of Rose Dogara Silas Gyar to three years imprisonment. She was jailed by Justice Abdul Hamid of the Gombe State High Court sitting in Gombe after pleading guilty to one-count charge bordering …
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JUSTICE Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Thursday, February 1, 2024, convicted and sentenced one Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin, an actress, to six months imprisonment for spraying and stepping on the new Naira notes at a social event in Lagos. She was first arraigned on February …
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THE attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been drawn to some misleading reports, commentaries and analyses by sections of the media, particularly Arise News, regarding the disclosure by the Executive Chairman, Mr. Ola Olukoyede about money laundering practices involving some religious sect leaders in Nigeria. At the Commission’s …
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