Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) have seized about $38m, N23m and £27,000 (all cash) from an
apartment in highbrow Ikoyi, Lagos following a string operation.
Wednesday’s seizure, suspected to be proceeds of graft
and money laundering, is coming on the heels of at least N5bn naira confiscated
by the anti-graft agency in Lagos within the last seven days.
An EFCC source, who confirmed the news, declined to
identify the owner of the residence nor the location.
Nigeria recently introduced a whistleblower program
that rewarded informants with a portion of recovered stolen or laundered funds.
The EFCC had seized N4bn warehouse in a fixed deposit
account in GTB on Tuesday believed to be owned by a politician in Niger State
who is presently on the run, €547,730 and £21,090 as well as N5, 648,500 from a
Bureau de Change operator in Balogun Market, Lagos and also confiscated N449,
000, 860 from a locked up shop of an abandoned Bureau de Change in Victoria
Island, Lagos.
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