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P&ID Scam: EFCC Arraigns Ex-Lagos Attorney-General, Shasore For Alleged $200,000 Bribe
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- Written by Chinonso Igwe
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday, October 21, 2022, arraigned a former Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Lagos State, Olasupo Shasore, SAN, on a two-count charge allegedly bordering on corrupt offers of $200,000 to public officers, before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos.
The offence is contrary to and punishable under Section 9(1) (a) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act 2000.
One of the counts reads: "That you, Olasupo Shasore, SAN, on or about the 18th day of November 2014 in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, corruptly gave the sum of USD100, 000.00 (One Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) to one Mrs. Olufolakemi Adelore (then Director, Legal, Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources) on account of the role she played in the arbitral proceedings instituted by Process and Industrial Developments Limited (P&ID) against the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources."
P&ID Scam: EFCC Arraigns Ex-Lagos Attorney-General, Shasore For Alleged $200,000 Bribe
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- Written by Chinonso Igwe
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday, October 21, 2022, arraigned a former Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Lagos State, Olasupo Shasore, SAN, on a two-count charge allegedly bordering on corrupt offers of $200,000 to public officers, before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos.
The offence is contrary to and punishable under Section 9(1) (a) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act 2000.
One of the counts reads: "That you, Olasupo Shasore, SAN, on or about the 18th day of November 2014 in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, corruptly gave the sum of USD100, 000.00 (One Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) to one Mrs. Olufolakemi Adelore (then Director, Legal, Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources) on account of the role she played in the arbitral proceedings instituted by Process and Industrial Developments Limited (P&ID) against the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources."
Cyber – Fraud: Five Convicted in Oyo, One in Ogun
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- Written by Chinonso Igwe
The Ibadan Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentencing of six internet fraudsters to various jail terms.
The convicts are Agboola Khalid Babatunde, Okuneye Olamilekan Damilola, Quadri Ahmed Olawale, Okafor Chibuzor Michael, Lawal Emmanuel Adekunle and Victor Abumere Aigbe.
Babatunde, Olawale and Aigbe were arraigned on separate one count charge that bordered on impersonation, an offence contrary to Section 484 of the Criminal Code Law Cap 38, Laws of Oyo State 2000 and while Michael was docked on two counts for stealing.
EFCC Arrests Two Suspected Currency Counterfeiters with Fake $270,000 in Abuja
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested two suspected currency counterfeiters: Johnson Olumoyegun and Tanko Abubakar, in Abuja.
They were arrested on Thursday and Friday, October 6 and 7, 2022 in Kubwa and Area 3 Axis of Abuja, with fake $270,000 (Two Hundred and Seventy Thousand United States Dollars).
EFCC Charges POS Operators On Due Diligence on Customers
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The Uyo Zonal Commander of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Assistant Commander of the EFCC, ACE Bawa Hamidu Saidu has charged Point of Sale, POS, operators in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State to put modalities in place to ensure that a proper 'Know Your Customer' , KYC, is carried out on customers who approach them for transactions.
Bawa gave this charge on Wednesday, October 19, 2022 when Executives of the Association of Point Of Sale, POS, Operators led by their President, Ndifreke Bassey, paid him a visit in his office in Uyo.
The Zonal Commander, who described the visit as 'very important and timely' decried the consequences of fraudulent transactions by customers on operators of the POS businesses, and urged the visitors to ensure that their members adhere to the KYC directive.
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