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EFCC Opposes Mompha's Accomplice, Koudeih's Application For Foreign Medical Checkup
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has urged Justice Ringim Tijjani, a vacation judge of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos to dismiss the application of one Hamza Koudeih seeking leave of the Court to travel to Lebanon for psychiatric treatment.
Koudeih is being prosecuted by the EFCC alongside one Kayode Phillips, both of whom are alleged accomplices of Ismaila Mustapha, popularly known as Mompha, before Justice Muslim Hassan of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos for alleged money laundering.
EFCC Hosts Bank Auditors, Urges Transparency in Banking Sector
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The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa on Tuesday, August 24, 2021 affirmed the Commission’s willingness to partner with the Association of Chief Audit Executives of Banks in Nigeria, ACAEBIN, in tackling financial crimes and related challenges in the banking sector. “EFCC welcomes your suggestion of robust partnership. We cannot do this job alone. We need information, and for all Nigerians to be on board, to rid our country of corruption.”
He spoke when members of the ACAEBIN, led by the Chairman, Yinka Tiamiyu paid him a courtesy visit at the Commission`s headquarters, Abuja.
Cyber Fraudster Jailed for $1500 Scam
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One Harry Prince Okotie who was on Monday, 23rd August, 2021 arraigned before Justice Sylvanus Oriji of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for pretending to be Thomas Toud, a Drilling Engineer from South Korea on Facebook, has been sentenced to 6 months in prison.
Land Fraud: Adamu Bags Five Years Imprisonment in Gombe
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A Gombe State High Court presided over by Justice M.A. Abubakar on August 20, 2021 convicted and sentenced one Alhaji Abdullahi Adamu to five years imprisonment on a three count charge of cheating, possession and use of forged documents brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
The convict was said to have sometime in July, 2020 obtained the sum of N2, 200,000.00 (Two Million, Two Hundred Thousand Naira only) from the complainant for the sale of a house at Federal Low Cost Housing Estate, Gombe.
EFCC Arrests 15 Internet Fraudsters in Abuja
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission , Abuja Zonal Command, has arrested 15 suspected internet fraudsters.
The suspects were apprehended within Brick City and Kagini in the Kubwa axis of Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, on Thursday, August 19, 2021 following credible intelligence on their alleged involvement in cyber-related scam.
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