The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says it has arrested three persons over alleged illegal exportation of pangolin scales and elephant tusks worth N22.3 billion in Lagos. Hameed Ali, comptroller general of customs, disclosed this while addressing journalists on Wednesday. Ali said the items seized included pangolin scales in 196 sacks weighing 17,137.44kg, elephant tusks weighing […]
Mompha claimed that the EFCC contacted him after Hushpuppi was apprehended abroad and asked him to delete his social media pages and maintain a low profile after the incident. The Nigerian anti-graft agency, EFCC, on Monday, dissociated itself from claims by Ismaila Mustapha, alias Mompha, wherein he claimed they advised him to maintain a low […]
Alleged international fraudster, Ramon Abbas aka Hushpuppi, has agreed to plead guilty to charges including money laundering, wire fraud, felony amongst others brought against him by the United States District Court for the Central District Of California. In a plea agreement document sighted by The PUNCH on Wednesday, Hushpuppi agreed to plead guilty as charged. […]
An Ekiti State High Court in Ado Ekiti, on Friday, convicted a former bank cashier, Ebenezer Adeolu Alonge, alongside his wife, Isakunle Olamide Oyinlola and his mother-in-law, Isakunle Eunice Moradeke for 60 years for conspiracy and stealing. Justice Adekanye Ogunmoye convicted them on a 12-count charge, which according to him was contrary to section 390(9) […]
Kano State High Court presided over by Justice Farouq Lawan today June 30, 2021, convicted and sentenced the duo of Jude Ameh and Ademola Aderibigbe on a one-count amended charge of theft. The convicts were said to have connived and fraudulently stole the sum of N11, 360,000 (Eleven Million Three Hundred and Sixty Thousand Naira […]
A federal high court in Lagos has discharged Peter Nwaoboshi, senator representing Delta north, of money laundering charge filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The EFCC arraigned Nwaoboshi and his two firms – Golden Touch Construction Project Ltd and Suiming Electrical Ltd — in 2018 before Mohammed Idris, a judge, […]
A Lagos High Court sitting in the Ikeja area has sentenced former managing director of defunct Bank PHB, Francis Atuche to over 6 years in prison. In a judgment that lasted over 10 hours, Justice Lateefat Okunnu convicted Atuche alongside a former Chief Financial Officer of the bank, Ugo Anyanwu. The two were convicted on […]
THE Federal Government has commenced the bidding process for the sale of recovered and forfeited assets from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice and the Inter-ministerial Committee set up by the government to handle sales of the assets under the Ministry of […]
The Delta State Police Command has arrested a yet-to-be identified pastor and one other for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl whose heart was ripped open and other vital organs removed. Saturday PUNCH gathered that the victim and her mother, a petty trader, were members of the pastor’s church located along Board road in […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) has asked all Managing Directors of banks, their deputies and Executive Directors to submit their asset declaration forms. The Nation learnt they have up to two weeks to do so or risk 10-year jail term. The top executives are first on the list of bankers expected to declare their […]
