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Court Jails Two NSCDC Officers for N2.7m Employment Fraud
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Justice Malami Umar Dogon Daji of the Sokoto State High Court, sitting in Sokoto today Tuesday, July 6, 2021, convicted and sentenced the duo of Mainasara Malami and Emmanuel Salihu (both staff of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps) to seven years imprisonment without an option of fine for conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of Two Million Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira (N2,750,000.00).
One of the count charge reads: "That you Mainasara Malami and Emmanuel Salihu sometime in October, 2017 in Sokoto within the Judicial Division of the High Court of Sokoto State with intent to defraud, obtained the total sum of N2,750,000.00 from some members of the public under false pretence of securing employment with the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, which you knew to be false and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(1)(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act.”
EFCC Sensitises Offa Students On Corruption
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The Ilorin Zonal Office of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, July 6, 2021 intensified its efforts aimed at enlisting the support of youth across the zone in its anti-graft campaign with a visit to the Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Kwara State.
The Head, Public Affairs Department of the Zone, Ayodele Babatunde, while making a presentation on behalf of the Zonal Head, EFCC Ilorin, Usman Muktar, at the 2021 Students Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) Orientation Lecture of the School, admonished youths to shun all forms of corruption including cybercrime.
EFCC Charges NGOs, CSOs on SCUML Registration
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has called on Non-governmental Organisations, NGOs, and Civil Society Organisations, CSOs in the country to register with the Special Control Unit against Money Laundering, SCUML.
Speaking during a sensitization programme on SCUML organized by the AML/ CTF Forum in partnership with NGOs, CSOs Consortium in collaboration with ECOWAS/ GIABA in Lagos on July 6, 2021, the Lagos Zonal Head of EFCC, Ahmed Ghali, said that registration with SCUML has become necessary as a way of monitoring and reducing the risk of subversive use of the NGOs and CSOs by money launderers and terrorism financiers.
Ex-INEC Staff Bag One Year Jail Term, Forfeit Properties to FG
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The Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentencing of two former staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, before Justice Mahmoud Abdul-Gafar of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State.
The convicts, Christian Nwosu and Tijani Inda Bashir, were arraigned on a seven-count charge bordering on criminal misappropriation and criminal breach of trust while they were in the employ of INEC.
The defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges preferred against them, thereby leading to their full trial.
Ex-Ashaka Cement Staff Convicted of Stealing in Gombe
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A Gombe State High Court presided over by Justice Fatima Musa on Monday July 5, 2021 convicted and sentenced one Bala Bello, a former employee of Ashaka Cement, Bajoga, Gombe State to one year imprisonment on two separate one-count charge of stealing brought against him by the Gombe Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC . The offence is contrary to Section 320 and punishable under Section 322 of the Penal Code.
Bello, was alleged to have collected the sums of N780, 000 (Seven Hundred and Eighty Thousand Naira) and N400, 000 (Four Hundred Thousand Naira) from Alhaji Shadi Manu and Sa’ad Abdulhamid respectively, on the pretext of supplying them trucks of cement which he never did. Instead, he diverted the funds to personal use.
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