Again, a whistle blower on Tuesday led the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to a staggering sum of N4 billion suspected
to be proceeds of corruption.
The commission disclosed this in a Facebook post on Tuesday
evening.
However, EFCC did not state where and how the latest discovery
was made.
It said investigations revealed that the money belonged to a
former deputy governorship candidate in Niger State.
“The suspect uses the names of two companies – Katah Property
& Investment Limited, and Sadiq Air Travel Agency – in laundering the
funds.
“Each of the company has N2 billion fixed in its deposit account
domiciled in Guaranty Trust Bank.
“The suspected owner of the account and the account officer are
currently on the run,” the commission said.
The Naijaroyaltyculture.blogspot.com recalls that the EFCC on
Monday intercepted huge sums of money in various currencies totalling about
N250 million at the popular Balogun market in Lagos.
According to its spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, the discovery
followed information from a whistle blower that the money was being moved
somewhere in the market for conversion into foreign currencies by unnamed
persons.
The April 10 episode came barely three days after the commission
recovered N449 million at an abandoned bureau de change in Victoria Island,
Lagos.
Similarly, a tip-off by a whistle blower also led to the
discovery of N49 million in crispy notes of N200 and N50 abandoned at the
Kaduna International Airport on March 13.
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