N75.7Bn Fraud: Hassan Lawal, Nine Others Re-Arraigned
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Thursday November 15,2012 re-arraigned former minister of works, Dr. Hassan Lawal and nine others before Justice Adamu Bello of the Federal High Court, Abuja on a 44 count amended charge bordering on conspiracy, criminal breach of trust, conversion, and fraud to the tune of N75.7 billion.
Money Laundering: Court convicts $1.4m Bulk Cash Couriers …Forfeits 25% of Undeclared Sum
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos and presided over by Justice Okechukwu Okeke on Wednesday, 14 November, 2012 convicted two bulk cash couriers arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and ordered them to forfeit 25% of the $1.4million (One Million, Four Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) not declared to the security agencies before they were arrested by operatives of the EFCC at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos.
EFCC Arraigned Suspects over Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Wednesday, November 14, 2012 arraigned one Bamiteko Ademola and Oladapo David Akinjuwon (now at large) before Justice M. I. Awokulehin of Federal High Court, Kaduna. The duo was arraigned on a 3 count charge for offences bordering on conspiracy and obtaining money under false pretences. Bamiteko Ademola and Oladapo David Akingbogun allegedly obtained the sum of N880, 000 from one Salisu Idris, for the supply of a Honda Accord 2008 model car which claims they knew to be false.