The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has slammed seventeen count charge of fraud against Senator Rochas Okorocha. The EFCC alleged that Senator Okorocha and six others, including five companies, stole two point nine billion naira belonging to the people of Imo State. The anti-graft agency claimed that Senator Okorocha and the companies committed the crime between October…
An Airman who allegedly diverted the sum of twenty million naira that was mistakenly paid into his bank account has landed in trouble with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Lance Corporal Haruna Samuel of the Nigerian Air Force Base in Kaduna was arrested by operatives from the Kaduna Zonal Command of the EFCC. Haranu is alleged…
The Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja has granted bail to suspected internet fraudster, Ismaila Mustapha, popularly known as Mompha. Justice Mojisola Dada granted bail to Mompha in the sum of two hundred million naira and two sureties, at the resume trial today. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, had arraigned Mompha on Wednesday last week…
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have arrested a fake Army General in Lagos over an alleged two hundred and seventy-million-naira fraud. The EFCC alleged that the suspect, Bolarinwa Oluwasegun, duped the money from a company known as Kodef Clearing Resources. The anti-graft agency claimed that Oluwasegun lied to the organization that he had been…
The Federal Government has inaugurated the governing board of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission after six years of operating without a board. Secretary to the Government of the Federation Boss Mustapha, while inaugurating the board in Abuja, urged them to work towards policies that would contribute to the fight against corruption in the country. The Senate…
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…