BY ANDREW OROLUA Ten officers of the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have being detained over investigation of some missing items involving them. Their arrest and detention was in line with efforts to sweep the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, clean of corrupt tendencies, Mr. Dele Oyewale, the […]
BY ANDREW OROLUA In its quest to enforce integrity and rid its fold of fraudulent elements, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, dismissed twenty seven (27) officers from its workforce in 2024. The officers were dismissed for various offences bordering on fraudulent activities and misconduct. A statement by Dele Oyewale, Head, Media & Publicity […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has apprehended 792 individuals in what is being described as the largest one-day operation against cryptocurrency and romance fraud networks. The arrests were made in a seven-story building in Victoria Island, Lagos, with the suspects linked to widespread online fraud schemes. Among the arrested were 114 Chinese nationals, […]
Ugochukwu Ezeanyagu, an Economist and contractor from Umuahia, Abia State, has petitioned the Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Olanipekun Olukoyede, over a midnight raid on his home. Writing through his lawyers, Equity Law Partners in a letter signed by Shankyula, T.S and made available to journalists, Ezeanyagu narrated that about 15 EFCC officials, […]
Timber Kesiye Wabote, former Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), and Akintoye Akindele, Managing Director of Atlantic International Refinery and Petrochemical Limited, are under investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over a $35 million fraud tied to the Atlantic Refinery Project in Bayelsa State. The NCDMB had […]
BY ORIAKU IJELE Mr Ola Olukoyede, the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has attributed the frequent collapse of national grid to activities of corrupt contractors. The EFCC boss said this while receiving members of the House of Representatives Committee on Financial Crimes during an oversight visit to the commission’s headquarters […]
BY TUNDE OPALANA Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, has denied speculations that the former governor of Delta State, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for embezzling the state fund while in office to allegedly fund Atiku’s presidential campaign. There […]
..Plans to hold arrested officials till November 12 BY TITUS AKHIGBE The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested the Edo State Accountant General, Julius Anelu, and three other officials, said to be signatories to the state government accounts. Their arrest is coming less than 11 days to the handing over to the Governor-elect, […]
A former minister of power, Dr Olu Agunloye, on Monday challenged the amended charge filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in an FCT High Court. He is standing trial on allegations of some infractions in the award of the six billion dollars Mambila Hydropower plant in Taraba. Agunloye, who served […]
A former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA, Mr Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, says the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is an unlawful organisation. Agbakoba stated this in two separate letters to the Senate and House of Representatives, dated Oct. 14 and a certified true copy of it made available to newsmen on Wednesday […]
Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede has ordered immediate investigation of alleged bribery allegations imputed to some officers of the Commission by Idris Okuneye(a.ka.a Bobrisky) in a viral video circulating across the country. Okuneye, an ex-convict had alleged in the video powered by Martins Vincent Otse( a.k.a VeryDarkMan) […]
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ola Olukoyede on Friday, September 20, 2024 handed over €5100 (Five Thousand, One Hundred Euros) proceeds of crime to the Spanish Ambassador to Nigeria, His Excellency, Juan Ignacio Sell. The sum was recovered from a Nigerian romance fraudster for Heinz Burchard Einhaus Uchtmann, a […]
BY ORIAKU IJELE & EZE BARTH The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has commenced investigations over the embezzlement of over a trillion naira embezzlement discovered by the Commission allegedly committed by a particular governor in the Niger Delta of the South South zone of the country. Our correspondent who was at the two-day, First […]
The Economic and financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has warned Designated Non-Financial Businesses and Professions (DNFBPs) to conduct their dealings in line with provisions of the Money Laundering Prohibition and Prevention Act 2022. Dele Oyewale, the Spokesperson for EFCC, said this in a statement on the Website of the commission on Thursday. Oyewale explained that the […]
Operatives of the Benin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday August 28, 2024 arrested 24 suspected internet fraudsters at different locations within Benin City. The suspects were arrested based on actionable intelligence regarding their suspected involvement in internet- related fraud. READ ALSO: Kebbi Govt donates over N300m GSM Plaza […]
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested a four-man syndicate of alleged fraudsters impersonating and blackmailing the Executive Chairman of the Commission, Mr. Ola Olukoyede in a $1million deal. The fraudsters: Ojobo Joshua, Aliyu Hashim, Thomas Oduh and Paul Ogiji were arrested on Wednesday, August 28, 2024 at Gimbiya Street, Garki […]
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Makurdi Zonal Directorate on Wednesday August 21, 2024 arrested 14 suspected internet fraudsters in a sting operation along Federal Lowcost Housing Estate Makurdi, Benue State. Their arrest followed actionable intelligence about their suspected involvement in internet fraud. The suspect are: Austine Okwori, Osita Idoko Valentine, Skott […]
..To report for interrogation every Monday BY ORIAKU IJELE & BARTH EZE The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has granted the detained Executive Chairman of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON),Jalal Arabi, and Abdullahi Kontagora, the Commission’s Secretary, administrative bail over allegations of gross financial infractions in the ₦90 billion allocated for the […]
The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) has made a case for a specialised court to try culprits of oil theft in the country. Mr Michael Uzokwe, the Chief of Staff to the Chairman of the commission, Mr Ola Olukoyede said this during the investigative hearing of crude oil theft in Abuja. Uzokwe said that […]
BY ORIAKU IJELE & BEN EMEKA Fear and unease are the best way to describe the situations in all the 774 local government areas (LGAs), in Nigeria following the decision by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to monitor and track all financial transactions in the Local Government Areas of the Federation as a […]