Federal High Court wey sit for Abuja don give Economic and Financial Crimes Commission permission to seize forty properties wey get link to former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu. Trial Justice wey be Inyang Ekwo na him give the order after him hear application EFCC wey EFCC carry come the court. EFCC tell the court say the…
EFCC don arrest Kogi Assembly candidate for the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Ismaila Atumeyi with three hundred and twenty-six million naira plus one hundred and forty thousand dollars cash wey dem believe na part of one point four billion naira wey yahoo yahoo people steal from one commercial bank. Economic and Financial Crimes Commission tok for statement…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has cleared former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Andrew Yakubu, of money laundering charges. Justice Ahmed Mohammed discharged and acquitted Yakubu of the charges on the ground that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt. Justice Mohammed said that the…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the arrest of former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke. Justice Bolaji Olajuwon approved the order based on the request of a lawyer for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Farouk Abdullah. Allison-Madueke is facing multiple charges of financial crimes, but she has not been seen in the country…
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have again arrested suspected internet fraudster, Ismailia Mustapha, in Lagos. The EFCC picked up Mustapha, who is popularly known as Mompha, over alleged money laundering and retention of alleged proceeds of crime. Before his latest arrest, Mompha was already facing trial alongside his company, Ismalob Global Investment Limited, over…