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EFCC Chairman’s Visit to Lagos CJ Routine
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- Written by Chinonso Igwe
The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has drawn to a story captioned, Controversy Trails EFCC Chairman’s Visit to Lagos CJ, which appeared in Thisday Newspaper of Tuesday April 19, 2022.
The report alleged that the visit by the EFCC Chairman to Justice Kazeem Alogba, Chief Judge of Lagos State, after a court session where he was prosecution witness is now a subject of controversy.
Though the source of controversy is not stated by the writer, the Commission is however constrained to state the fact of the visit to forestall needless innuendos and misrepresentation.
EFCC/NYSC CD Group Sensitizes Marketers Against Corruption In Makurdi
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- Written by Chinonso Igwe
The Makurdi Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in collaboration with members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Anti-Corruption CD group on Tuesday, April 19, 2022 took enlightenment and sensitization campaign on the ills of corruption to Markets in Makurdi, Benue State.
The corps members using a megaphone engaged the market women and men in English, Tiv, Idoma, Igede Pidgin, Yoruba, and Hausa languages, educating them on the ills of corruption and its consequences on the larger society.
They urged the traders to shun corruption while displaying posters with messages such as: "Don't give bribe, don’t to take bribe," "Anybody who sey make you bring N10,000, sey in go give you N100,000 after one week, na lie, make you no go there", "Tell your children, brothers and sisters that yahoo yahoo is not good", EFCC will get you any day anytime".
Alleged N266.5m Fraud: Court Fixes April 25 For Ruling On Bail Application of Fake Army General
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- Written by Chinonso Igwe
Justice O.A.Taiwo of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Thursday, April 14, 2022, adjourned till April 25, 2022 for ruling on the bail application of one Bolarinwa Abiodun, a self-acclaimed Army General, who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a 13-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence, forgery of documents and possession of documents containing false pretence to the tune of N266,500,000.
The defendant, who was arraigned on April 11, 2022, is accused of falsely representing himself to the complainant, Kodef Clearing Resources, as a General in the Nigerian Army who had been shortlisted by President Muhammadu Buhari to be appointed as the Chief of Army Staff, COAS, and that he needed a short grant to “press and process the appointment".
Abiodun, who was arrested at his house in the Alagbado area of Lagos State on Wednesday, January 12, 2022, also allegedly forged a letter of appointment as COAS purportedly signed by the President and showed the same to the victim to further prove his claim.
Fake Brad Pitt, Three Others Bag Jail Term in Benin City
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- Written by Chinonso Igwe
Justice Efe Ikponmwonba of the Edo State High Court sitting in Benin City on Thursday April 14, 2022, convicted and sentenced four internet fraudsters to prison for fraud.
The convicts are Chigbolu Stephen Kanayo (aka Brad Pitt) Udoh Godspower (aka Wang Wei); Orome Collins (aka Wang Wei) and Clifford Otsu (aka Wang David).
They were arraigned by the Benin Zonal Command of the EFCC for offences bordering on intent to defraud and impersonation.
The defendants had sometime in October 2021 and February 2022 with intent to defraud impersonated foreign nationals on their respective social media platforms in the attempt to defraud them.
EFCC Dock Two for N22m Fraud in Maiduguri
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- Written by Chinonso Igwe
The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, April 14, 2022 arraigned one Mohammed Bukar (a.k.a Gausu) before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri on a one count charge of obtaining by false pretence to the tune of N19,000,000.00 (Nineteen Million Naira only).
The defendant fraudulently collected the sum from Ba’ana Modu Buraye for the execution of purported contract awarded to him by Norwegian Refugee Council for the supply of water pumps.
The count reads: “That you Mohammed Bukar (Gausu) sometime in August, 2021 in Maiduguri Borno State, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court fraudulently induced one Ba’ana Modu Buraye to cause the gross sum of Nineteen Million Naira (N19, 000,000.00) only to be delivered to you via MUB Guzamala Enterprises Bank account No. 0003811629 domiciled in Jaiz Bank Plc. under false pretence that you were to use the said sum for the execution of a purported contract awarded to you by Norwegian Refugee Council, a Non-Governmental Organisation for the supply of water pump which fact you knew to be false and thereby an offence contrary to and punishable under sections 1(1) and 1(3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act 2016.”
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