Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court today March 14, 2014 refused an application for the variation of the terms of the bail earlier granted to Aliyu Bello, a former special assistant to the director of administration (Pension Account) and Abdullahi Omeiza, a Sokoto-based school teacher. Justice Ademola had earlier granted the accused persons bail in the sum of N366, 000,000 (Three Hundred and Sixty Six Million) each and a surety in like sum. However, they claimed that they could not fulfil the bail terms, and filed an application for the variation of the bail conditions.It will be recalled…
Author: Kunle Edun
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes, Ibrahim Lamorde, has commended the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) for accepting to partner with the Commission in the fight against corruption. “It will further serve as an avenue to deepen existing relations between the two agencies,” he said. Lamorde who was represented by Osita Nwajah, deputy director, Public Affairs stated this at an Anti-Corruption Sensitization Programme organized for the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) on March 13, 2014. “It is far cheaper to prevent crime than to fight it, EFCC cannot work alone in this fight. It is our hope that the…
The arraignment of Mohammed Bello Abubakar, a former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Local Government and Community Development, Sokoto State, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, before Justice Rilwan Mohammed Aikawa of the Federal High Court, Sokoto on Wednesday, March 12, 2014 did not hold after all. Abubakar who was the Permanent Secretary of Local government and Community Development, Sokoto State between 2007 and June 2012 and presently Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Sokoto State was to be arraigned alongside the Deputy Director, Finance and Supply, Abubakar Abdullahi Ahmed on a 43-count charge bordering on conspiracy and forgery.Though the…
Justice Husseini Baba of the FCT High Court today, March 13,2014, admitted in evidence, Certificate of Identification of Statement of Account and Cheques obtained from First Bank Nigeria Plc by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in the ongoing trial of seven persons who are alleged to have stolen N24 billion of Police pension fund. The documents contain forensic analyses of statement of accounts of the police pension office which revealed how a total of 400 cheques were cashed on a single day. These were labelled as Exhibits P6, P6A and P6B respectively. Further attempt by the prosecution counsel,…
The general public is hereby informed that the Special Team on Petroleum Subsidy (STPS) which was set up as an Ad-hoc Team in January 2012 to investigate petroleum subsidy fraud in the country has, by approval of Management, been elevated to a full section- Extractive Industry Fraud Section (EIFS) under the Operations Department. The public is by this notice, to relate with the Section in this regard.
The Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, on March 12, 2014, arraigned one Zahradeen Dambazzau Mohammed before Justice Olasumbo Olanrewaju Goodluck of the FCT High Court, Abuja, on a 5-count charge bordering on forgery and issuance of dud cheque. The accused and Ibrahim Ismail (still at large) allegedly conspired among themselves to forge a land title deed document belonging to Ishaya Madi. One of the counts reads: “That you, Zahradeen Dambazzau Mohammed and Ibrahim Ismail (at large) sometime in 2011 at Abuja in the Abuja Judicial Division of The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory did conspire among yourself…
A 29 year-old warder with the old Abeokuta Prisons, Ibara, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Joseph Emmanuel is presently in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for allegedly assisting a prison inmate in carrying out fraudulent financial transactions, as well as using the name and documents of an illiterate taxi driver, to open a First Bank account for the inmate. The suspect allegedly assisted the inmate whom he called ‘Ora’ to open the account, using the name of one taxi driver in his neighbourhood called Monsuru Ogunsina Adeogun”. He took the step after he rejected the entreaties of…
A prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of seven persons accused of complicity in the billion naira Police Pension fraud, Mustapha Sani Gadanya, on March 11, 2014, told Justice Hussein Baba of the Federal Capital Territory High Court how 400 cheques were cashed in a day by the accused persons. “Over 400 cheques were withdrawn and we got this information from the bank statement furnished us by First Bank Plc,” Mustapha said. Led in evidence by Rotimi Jacobs, SAN, Gadanya told the court that he obtained and analyzed the certified true copy of instruments used in making withdrawals in the…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday March 10, 2014 arraigned the quartet of Joseph Sule Emoabino, David Eson Igbinoba, Agbator Gaskin Efe and Dr. Simon Imuekeme before Justice Esther Edigin of the Edo State High Court on an 8-count charge that borders on diversion of the sum of N113 million allocated for a particular project to another project contrary to section 22(5) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act 2000 and engaging in criminal conspiracy to commit an offence contrary to section (26) (1) (c) of the same Act.” The quartet who were chairman, secretary, director…
The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has been drawn to publications in Vanguard and The Punch, newspapers and some online publications of Monday, 10 March, 2014, entitled, Alam’s Loot: Bayelsa Govt. Drags EFCC to Court, and Bayelsa Drags EFCC to Court over Alamieyeseigha Loot among other headlines. The news reports about a matter said to have been filed at the Federal High Court, Abuja, by one Mr. George Uboh, ostensibly acting on the instruction of the Bayelsa State Government, is provocative misinformation and very cheap blackmail, to say the very least. The Commission wishes to state that…