The
Abuja Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has
secured 16 convictions between November 2018 and April 2019, and recovered more
than N100 million.
According
to Umar Hadejia, Head of the EFCC Abuja Zonal Office, the achievement comes a
few months after the anti-graft agency formally designated the Wuse II Office
of the EFCC, as the Abuja Zonal Office, following the commissioning and movement
of the Headquarters of the EFCC to its new Head Office Complex at Jabi, Abuja.
Hadejia
who made the disclosure on Friday, May 10, 2019 stated that the Zone recovered
a total cash of N92,800,078 , $42,543 and €1,000 during
the period under review.
He
further added that within the period, the Zone recovered the following items:
Mercedes Benz C300, Mercedes Benz C240, Lexus salon car, 3 HP Pavilion Laptops,
Dell Laptop, 3 Apple MAC Book Laptops, 9 iphone X smart phones, 7 Android
phones, Apple ear pods, iwatches, Refrigerators, Televisions, generators,
expensive wrist watches and jewelleries worth millions of Naira.
He
said: “The Zone has continued to speed up efforts to ensure that fraudsters are
made to face the wrath of the law and in situations were funds are recovered,
victims are refunded and where the court deems fit, funds are returned back to
the federal government coffers.
“We
hereby urge citizens in Nigeria and the Diaspora to ensure they report any
suspected economic or financial crime to the Commission for immediate
investigation and prosecution.”
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