CORRUPTION
SARS Detained Me For 47 Days, Extracted My Teeth – Victim Tells Lagos Judicial Panel
A middle-aged man, Okoli Aguwu, says he spent about one and a half months in the detention of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). He disclosed this on Tuesday at the opening session of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution set up by the Lagos State government to look into the allegations of brutality and highhandedness by personnel of the...
Alleged Corruption: Court Refuses To Grant Extradition Order Against Alison-Madueke
The Federal High Court in Abuja has turned down the application to extradite the former Minister of Petroleum, Deizani Alison-Madueke from the United Kingdom. Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu refused the application on the grounds that the evidence in support to prove that the earlier court summon granted to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had failed in the extradition of...
How SARS Plucked My Eye, Framed Me For Armed Robbery – Ex-corps Member
A graduate of Marketing from the Anambra State University (now Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University), Uli, Anthony Onuagbara, tells OLUFEMI OLANIYI how members of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad caused him to lose his right eye after allegedly beating him up and arraigning him in court for armed robbery. You were a corps member in 2012. Where were you posted for...
BREAKING: EFCC Interrogates Fowler Over Fraud Allegations Against Alpha Beta
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC is presently interrogating a former Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Babatunde Fowler, over the N100 billion tax evasion allegations levelled against a tax firm, Alpha Beta Consulting. Fowler, who was also a former Chief Executive Officer, Lagos State Internal Revenue Service, responded to an invitation from the EFCC on Monday. A former...
Salami Panel Conclude Magu Probe, Wants Police Out Of EFCC
After about five months, Justice Isa Ayo Salami Judicial Commission of Inquiry is set to wind up an investigation into the activities of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). It was learnt that the panel plans to conclude its assignment this week. Its report will then be sent to President Muhammadu Buhari. It was gathered that one of the recommendations...
Court Jails Former Dangote Manager, Two Others for $32,000 Insurance Fraud
The Lagos Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, March 9, 2021, secured the conviction and sentencing of the trio of Raymond Akanolu, a former General Manager, Dangote Industries Limited, Mojisola Aladejobi, and Balogun Omololu Alaba before Justice S.S. Ogunsanya of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja for $32,000 (Thirty -two Thousand...
Court Convicts Fraudster in Abuja
Justice Peter Kekemeke of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Nyanya Abuja on Wednesday, March 31, 2021 convicted and sentenced one internet fraudster, Farouk Olamilekan to three months in prison. The defendant who was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, was convicted after he pleaded guilty to one count of computer-related fraud and cheating. His trouble began when...
I Was Invited By EFCC, Not Arrested, Says Okorocha
A former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, on Tuesday said that he was not arrested by the Economic Financial Crimes Commission contrary to the speculations making the rounds. Okorocha in a statement by his Spokesperson, Sam Onwuemeodo, disclosed that he only honoured an invitation by the anti-graft agency. Stating that the EFCC facility is not “a slaughterhouse,” the statement disclosed...
Buhari’s Son-In-Law Declared Wanted Over $65 MIllion Fraud
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC has declared Gimba Yau Kumo, a son-in-law of President Muhammadu Buhari, wanted over an alleged $65 million fraud. Kumo, who got married to Fatima, one of the president’s daughters in 2016, was alleged to have perpetrated the crime alongside one Tarry Rufus and another Bola Ogunsola. In a statement on Thursday,...
EFCC Arrests Juju Scam Kingpin, Abayomi Alaka over N250m Fraud [PHOTOS]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arrested Abayomi Kamaldeen Alaka (a.k.a Awise), leader of a deadly syndicate of juju scammers that operates from a shrine at Ashipa Town, near Abeokuta Ogun State. Awise’s arrest followed a petition by a victim, Bright Juliet who lost N250m to the syndicate after she was tricked to provide money for sacrifices and...
