The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Wednesday, June 23, 2021 re-arraigned Peter Hena, former Coordinating Director of Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS and eight other officers of the agency before Justice Toyin Bolaji Adegoke of the Federal High Court, Abuja. The others are Mohammed Bello Auta (Director of Finance), Amina Sidi (Finance and…
After 12 years of trial that witnessed many twists and turns, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, June 16, 2020, finally secured the conviction and sentencing of Francis Atuche, a former Managing Director of the defunct Bank PHB Plc (now Keystone Bank), to six years imprisonment for N25.7bn fraud before Justice Lateefat…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arrested Abayomi Kamaldeen Alaka (a.k.a Awise), leader of a deadly syndicate of juju scammers over an alleged N250m fraud. The leader and members of his syndicate have been operating from a shrine in Ashipa Town, near Abeokuta in Ogun State. According to a statement by the Head…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has denied claims made by Justin Gbagir, Chairman Makurdi Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, that he was assaulted and brutalized by operatives of the Makurdi Zonal Office of the Commission on June 8, 2021, leading to his being hospitalized at BUSTH. A statement by the anti-graft…
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa has called on the Nigerian Permanent Mission to the United Nations to assist the Commission in sensitizing Nigerian youths in Diaspora against cybercrime. The EFCC boss made the appeal when he met with officials of the Mission in company with his chief…
The Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, CIBN and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC have resolved to strengthen their collaboration in tackling corruption in the financial sector. Speaking during a courtesy visit to the EFCC’s headquarters in Abuja on Monday, May 31, 2021, the Chairman of CIBN, Bayo Olugbemi stated that there was…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arrested one Mohammed Umar, a Bida, Niger State based politician and businessman, for alleged employment scam. A statement by the commission’s spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, said operatives from the Cybercrime section at the EFCC headquarters, Abuja arrested Umar on May 18, 2021 following a petition from a victim…
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa, has described as alarming the rate of procurement frauds in public service in Nigeria. He stated this in his goodwill message at the opening ceremony of the Year 2021 First Batch Conversion Training Programme to Procurement Cadre for Federal Parastatals and Agencies organized…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has said that it has not issued any notice in the social media promising financial reward for anyone with information that could lead to the arrest of Yahoo Boys. Wilson Uwujaren, Head, Media and Publicity of the commission in a statement released on Friday said the clarification became necessary…
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC have arrested one Udochukwu Ugochukwu Simeon for allegedly creating fraudulent clones of the Commission e-mail address, and using same to defraud unsuspecting victims. EFCC spokesman Wilson Uwujaren in a statement on Wednesday said the 26-year-old suspect created an Outlook email account of the Commission, “efccnigeria.org.ng@outlook.com” and…