EFCC Docks Sokoto Councillor, Director for Diversion of Salaries
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Sokoto Zonal Office today, November 14, 2019, arraigned Tukur Lando Yabo, Director Works, Tureta Local Government Area; Hon. Abubakar Nasarawa Maigishiri, a Councillor in the Local Government; Sambo Abdullahi, Cashier, Ministry…
Dawn Groff', Internet Fraudster Bags Six Months Imprisonment
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC) Ilorin Zonal Office has secured the conviction of one Abolarin Kayode for internet and other fraud related offences. Abolarin was convicted and sentenced to six months imprisonment by Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State…
Businessman Docked for N6.9m Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Maiduguri Zonal office, on Thursday, November 14, 2019 arraigned one Bukar Alhaji Modu before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri on a two count charge bordering on criminal breach of trust to the tun…
EFCC Bursts Syndicate of Forgers, Arrests 4 in Owerri
The Enugu zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, has arrested 4 suspected fraudsters. They were picked up at shop 22, Image Digital Studio, Jo-Josh Mall, Ikenegbu,Owerri, Imo State following intelligence that the suspects were operating an illegal business…
Witness Reveals how Monies were Moved in Alleged N587.7m Ecowas Commission Fraud
A prosecution witness, Abdulahi Tafida, who is a compliance officer with Zenith Bank Plc on Wednesday, November 13, 2019 told a Federal High Court, Abuja presided over by Justice Okon Abang, how monies were wired between companies in the money laundering trial involving Mohammed…
EFCC Docks Man, Son for $108,000 USD Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos office, today, November 13, 2019, arraigned one John Isang and his son, Martins before Justice Sherifat Solebo of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja on an amended two-count charge bordering on conspiracy to obtain…
Court Refuses to Terminate Prosecution of Kwara Ex-lawmaker for Land Fraud
A Kwara State High Court, sitting in Ilorin, on Wednesday, November 13, 2019 refused an application brought by former member of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Muhammed Adebayo, seeking to terminate a six-count charge, bordering on land fraud and obtaining money under false pr…
N50m Fraud: EFCC Arraigns Man for Issuance of Dud Cheque
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos office, today arraigned one Bayo Alli and his company, Transoceanic Logistic Limited before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja on a nine-count charge bordering on issuance of dud cheque to…
Alleged N29b Fraud: EFCC Closes Case Against Nyako, Others
At the resumed trial on Wednesday, November 13, 2019, in the alleged N29billion money laundering charge against a former Adamawa State governor, Murtala Nyako and eight others, before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja, prosecution counsel, Rotimi Jacobs, SAN, in…
Fake EFCC Officer Bags 3 Years Jail Term
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has secured the conviction of one Mukhtar Bello before Justice M.T Tukur of Kaduna State High Court on three counts of impersonation and obtaining by false pretence. The 43-year-old graduate of the University of Tampa, Florida wa…
Court Refuses to Terminate Prosecution of Kwara Ex-lawmaker for Land Fraud
A Kwara State High Court, sitting in Ilorin, on Wednesday, November 13, 2019 refused an application brought by former member of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Muhammed Adebayo, seeking to terminate a six-count charge, bordering on land fraud and obtaining money under false pr…
Court Adjourns Dokpesi Case to January 2020
Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday November 12, 2019, adjourned till January 21-23, 2020 for continuation of hearing in the trial of the founder of Daar Communication Plc, Chief Raymond Dokpesi. Dokpesi is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financia…
EFCC Arraigns Two Kano Sharia Court Staff for N1.2m Fraud
The Kano Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 arraigned the duo of Ado Shehu and Ali Muhammad before Justice Amina .A. Aliyu of the Kano State High Court on a three-count charge, bordering on theft and receipt of grati…
EFCC Tasks Corps Members to Shun Corruption, Cybercrime
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has warned youths to shun corruption and cybercrime. This was the central theme of messages by officials of the Commission to members of the Batch C Stream of the National Youth Service Corps at the various orientation camps acr…
EFCC Trains Liberian Anti-graft Officers
Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday November 12, 2019 stated that the decision of the Liberian President George Weah, to send officials of the Liberian Anti-corruption Commission, LACC, to be trained by the EFCC was an affirma…
EFCC Nabs Suspected Currency Forgers
The Abuja Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, November 7, 2019, arrested two suspected currency counterfeiters. They are: Odoh Lazarus Offor and Nnamani Emmanuel. A total of fake $20,000 (Twenty Thousand US Dollars) was recovered from…
Magu Admonishes Youth to shun Criminality
The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has charged Nigerian youths to follow their dream through to success and always stay away from criminal acts in order not to fall into the raging hand of the law. Magu gave the charge at the…
EFCC Arraigns Lawyer for N200m Scam
The Enugu Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned a lawyer, Nwabufo Richard Obienu and his company, Forric Nigeria Limited before Justice B.G Diepri of a Rivers State High Court, Port-Harcourt on a three count charge bordering on conspiracy to c…
EFCC Arraigns Clearing Agent for Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday, November 8, 2019 arraigned one Adamu Isyaku Dan'auni, and his company, Dan'auni General Merchant Nigeria Limited before Justice Lewis Allagoa of the Federal High Court, Kano on one count charge of forgery. The defenda…
P&ID: Court Grants Nolan N500m Bail
Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High, Abuja on Thursday, November 7, 2019 granted bail to Richard James Nolan in the sum of N500million (Five Hundred Million Naira). The defendant is a director in Goidel Resources Limited, a Designated Non-Financial Institution “DNFI” and faces…
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