The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has uncovered how a religious sect in Nigeria is laundering money for terrorists.
The Chairman of EFCC, Ola Olukoyede, made this disclosure at a public engagement on youth, religion, and the fight against corruption, as well as the launch of the Fraud Risk Assessment Project for ministries, departments, and agencies.
He also revealed that another religious body was found to be protecting a money launderer after some money suspected to have been laundered was traced to the organisation’s bank account.
The EFCC boss said the EFCC was investigating a N13bn fraud case when it discovered that N7bn of the N13bn was linked to a religious body’s bank account.
But the religious organisation was quick to obtain a restraining order to prevent the EFCC from probing its leaders.
The EFCC Chairman added, “We were able to trace some laundered money to a religious organisation, and when we approached the religious organisation about it and we were carrying out our investigation, we got a restraining order stopping us from carrying out our investigation.”
Olukoyede noted that the anti-graft agency will not give up on the investigation as it is appealing the restraining order to recover the stolen funds.
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