Olasupo Shasore, SAN, a former Lagos State attorney general and commissioner for justice, will be charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday before the Federal High Court in Abuja. Shasore will be charged with 14 counts of alleged money laundering along with a business, Middlesex Investments Ltd., before Justice Inyang Ekwo. Read More…
In an FCT High Court, Maitama, on Wednesday, the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) re-arraigned suspended Accountant-General of the Federation Ahmed Idris and three other people for an alleged N109.5 billion fraud. Olusegun Akindele, Mohammed Usman, and Gezawa Commodity Market and Exchange Limited are additional defendants. They were initially charged with misappropriation of N109.5 Read More…
Olabanji Aluko, a suspected fraudster, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for an alleged $17.5million advance fee fraud. Aluko, who claimed to be a driver, was arrested, at a popular eatery in Falomo, Ikoyi, Lagos on Wednesday, September 8, 2022. The suspect claimed he had set a meeting with a Read More…
Operatives of the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), have invited two members of staff of Newworks Solutions and Investment Limited to tell what they know about an alleged fraud running into billions of naira. The EFCC’s move followed intelligence received by the Commission claiming that the Ministry of Interior Read More…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has handed over a property located at 1A, Joke Ayo Street, Riverside Estate, Alagbado, Lagos, as well as a Range Rover Sport Utility Vehicle, SUV, a black BMW car, a black Toyota Land cruiser car, and a white Toyota Hilux recovered from a convicted fake Army General, Bolarinwa Read More…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Tuesday said it had arrested two self-proclaimed spiritualists for defrauding an aspiring House of Representatives member in Ekiti State of N24,071,000. It said the men, Alfa Abiodun Ibrahim and Wale Adifala, alongside one Ifawole Ajibola (aka Baba Kalifa currently on the run), obtained the money under the pretext Read More…
An Independent Investigation Panel sitting in Abuja on Friday ordered the Chairman, National Drug Laws Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), retired Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa to produce suspended DCP Abba Kyari on March 22. The panel also ordered the new Commandant of the IGP-IRT, Tunde Disu to do the needful to ensure that Kyari is produced before the Read More…
An Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) witness on Wednesday said that he did not receive any petition on money laundering against a former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji. Mr Adebayo Adeniyi, an EFCC investigator, testified as the first prosecution witness at the resumed trial of Ikuforiji before a Federal Read More…