Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

EFCC Docks Man Over Fake $492,000 Notes

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, May 7, 2018 arraigned one Samson Otuedon before Justice P. H. Mallong of the Federal High Court sitting in Lafia, Nasarawa State, on one count charge of currency counterfeiting. Otuedon was arrested by the EFCC on April 7, 2018 following an intelligence report on the activities of a syndicate of fraudsters duping unsuspecting victims in the Masaka, Karu Local Government Area of the State. Upon arrest, over $400,000 (Four Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) was recovered. The count reads: “That you, Samson Otuedon, on or about t…