The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested Dr. Mkor Aondona, a Special Adviser to the Benue State Governor on Documentation, Research, and Planning, over allegations of sextortion, cyberbullying, and blackmail. Dr. Aondona was apprehended on Friday, June 20, by operatives from the EFCC’s Makurdi Zonal Command following multiple petitions filed by female university…
…Olukoyede Says Internet Fraudsters Now Aid PEPs, Involved in Kidnapping, Rituals The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has raised alarm over an emerging trend where politically-exposed persons (PEPs) in Nigeria now use internet fraudsters—popularly known as Yahoo Boys—for money laundering. Olukoyede made the revelation during a press briefing at…
The Ibadan Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has successfully convicted and sentenced seventeen internet fraudsters in Oyo and Ogun states. The convicts were arraigned before Justice Olusola Adetujoye of the Oyo State High Court and Justice A.A. Babawale of the Ogun State High Court on separate charges. They were sentenced…
•As anti- graft commission vows to take legal action The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has reacted to story of alleged assault by the commission’s officers on one upcoming actress that is presently trending online as false claim. The budding actress took to Instagram to narrate how she was beaten up and brutalised by…
A businessman from the Republic of Benin, Jean Codo, who is under investigation for alleged €29m fraud by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, has died at the Kirikiri prison, Lagos. Codo, who owns Transport and Port Management System Limited, died on Thursday for lack of proper medical attention. According to report by Saharareporters, he…
No fewer than 42 youngsters have been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibadan zonal office on Friday, March 6, 2020, for alleged involvement in internet-related fraud. The suspects, whose ages range between 18 and 33 years, were apprehended at different locations in Ilaro, Ogun State, following actionable intelligence earlier received on their…
Three persons have been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan zonal office for allegedly duping the Otun-Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Lekan Balogun. The arrested suspects are Babatunde Ologunja, Olusola Olaoye Babatunde and Olufemi Lawal. The suspects and others according to EFCC still at large were accused of conspiring to dispossess the…
An ex-banker, Akinwole Oluwaseun Dosunmu, alongside his wife, Motunrayo Olanike Dosunmu have been arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan zonal office, before Justice Ladiran Akintola of the Oyo State High Court, sitting in Ibadan. The duo were accused of stealing the sum of N2, 740,300.92 (Two Million, Seven Hundred and Forty…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested a 60-year-old fish-farmer, Muyiwa Otuyalo, for attempting to smuggle in substance believed to be hard drug for his son, Damilola Otuyalo, who is currently in the custody of the commission’s Ibadan zonal office. The older Otuyalo was at the premises of the EFCC in Ibadan on…
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