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The Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, will on Friday October 19, 2012 arraign
Abubakar Sheriff Tijjani, a bulk cash smuggler intercepted with
$7,049.444(Seven million, Forty Nine Thousand, Four Hundred and Forty Four
United States Dollars) at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos on
Thursday, 27 September, 2012, by Operatives of the Commission, on his way to
Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
He will be
arraigned at a Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos .
When the 25-year-old
suspect was arrested, he declared that he had a total sum of $4.5million on him
but thorough screening and search showed that he was actually carrying
$7,049,444.
He confessed
that he was a courier for twenty individuals who hired him to convey the money to
Dubai.
Sheriff will
be docked under Section 12 of the Foreign Exchange (Monitoring and
Miscellaneous Provisions) Act Cap.F34 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004
and Section 2(5) of the Money Laundering Prohibition Act 2011.
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