The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested and detained controversial cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye aka Bobrisky, over abuse of naira, spraying of naira notes and currency mutilation. Bobrisky, who has been embroiled in several controversies over the past weeks, was arrested in Lagos on Wednesday night, and has since been detained at the Lagos Command of the EFCC. According to the statement issued by the spokesperson for the EFCC in […]
The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC, says it remains committed to ensuring that those who contribute to the failure of banks are properly investigated and prosecuted. Managing Director and Chief Executive of NDIC, Mr. Bello Hassan stated this during a courtesy visit by the NDIC Management to the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede at the EFCC Headquarters in Abuja. Mr. Hassan explained […]
The immediate-past Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdurasheed Bawa, has been released from detention. The Department of State Security, DSS in a statement by the Director Public Relations and Strategic Communications, Peter Afunanya confirms his release in the late hours of Wednesday the 25th of October 2023. Bawa was arrested by the DSS on June 14, 2023, after his suspension from office as EFCC Chairman by […]
President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Mr. Ola Olukoyede to serve as the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for a renewable term of four years in the first instance, pending the Senate's confirmation. Mr. Ola Olukoyede is a lawyer with over twenty-two (22) years of experience as a regulatory compliance consultant and specialist in fraud management and corporate intelligence. A statement signed by […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has returned USD 26,000 to Christine Brown, a British national and a victim of internet fraud. The commission in a statement says the Briton was duped of her life savings by an internet fraudster posing as an American entertainer online after she got romantically involved with him. Ms. Brown was presented with the sum of $26,000 by the Benin Zonal Command of the […]
The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction of a 24-year-old tiler, Yusuf Olalekan Ibrahim from Ajeromi, Ifelodun Local Government Area of Lagos State for offences bordering on cybercrime. Yusuf was convicted alongside Abdulazeez Taofeek Ademola from Oyan in Odo-Otin Local Government Area of Osun State and Nurudeen Abdulmajeed from Ile-odo compound, Lasoju in Asa Local Government Area of Kwara State by […]
The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulkarim Chukkol has reiterated the Commission’s readiness to sustain its partnership with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC. The chairman made the disclosure at a meeting with the Country Representative of the UNODC, Mr. Oliver Stolpe at the Commission's Headquarters in Abuja. Chukkol who appreciated the UNODC for its long-standing collaboration and enduring partnership in the […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has been warned to stop Criminalizing civil transaction matters that are outside its establishment mandate to stop incurring further wrath of Courts. Specifically, the anti-graft agency was asked to re-evaluate its approach to cases involving civil transactions and limit its scope of operations to criminal matters as stipulated in the law that set it up. An Abuja based lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi issued the […]
