The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday raided the Abuja home of a former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Usman Yusuf, and arrested him for alleged N4 billion fraud, amongst others. PREMIUM TIMES exclusively gathered that EFCC operatives arrested the professor of haematology-oncology and bone marrow transplantation in his … Read more
In January 2015, arms broker Hima Aboubakar hosted a man and a woman for a meeting in his suite at the prestigious Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. Mr Aboubakar, who is from the neighbouring Niger Republic, routinely visited world capitals to secure and execute defence contracts, but this meeting at Transcorp Hotel was … Read more
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has responded to criticisms for concealing the identity of the owner of the vast Abuja estate forfeited to the federal government on Monday. PREMIUM TIMES reported Monday how EFCC, Nigeria’s leading anti-corruption agency, secured the final forfeiture of the estate in Abuja, the largest single-asset recovery since the … Read more
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday brought a Chinese, Zhengjia Jin, before the Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja for alleged bribery and N301 million fraud. Mr Jin, was arraigned on four counts of retention of stolen property, bribery and stealing. The EFCC’s lawyer, Ahmad Usman, told the court that the … Read more
The Nigerian government has dropped all charges against Tigran Gambaryan, an executive at Binance Holdings, who has been facing money laundering trial from detention since April. A lawyer representing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) – the prosecuting agency – announced the withdrawal of the charges at the Federal High Court in Abuja Wednesday … Read more
Cybersecurity experts have highlighted poor digital forensic capabilities as the bane of Nigeria’s fight against cybercrime. This was the consensus at the unveiling of the book “Cybercrime, Digital Forensic Readiness, and Financial Crime Investigation” on Monday in Abuja. The book, co-authored by Tombari Sibe and Christian Kaunert, provides an evidence-based report on Nigeria’s forensic resources … Read more
There was a mild drama at the Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, as the detained Binance Holdings Limited’s executive, Tigran Gambaryan, was absent for his trial. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the trial judge, Emeka Nwite, had, on 11 October, fixed today (Friday) for continuation of trial in the alleged … Read more
Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, Abuja on Wednesday, October 16, 2024 ordered the final forfeiture of the sum of N2, 739,836,331.31(Two Billion, Seven Hundred and Thirty-nine Million, Eight Hundred and Thirty-six Thousand, Three Hundred and Thirty-one Naira, Thirty-one Kobo), being proceeds of illegal mining of solid minerals in Endo Community, Nasarawa State. … Read more
An operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) committed suicide at his residence in Abuja on Monday. The deceased, male, is said to be a member of the Course 5 of the EFCC Academy, but no other details about him, including his name, is publicly known as of Wednesday morning. We have also … Read more
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has set up a disciplinary panel to investigate two operatives accused of assaulting a woman during their team’s raid on a hotel in Lagos last week. A press statement by the commission on Sunday said the chairperson of the anti-graft agency, Ola Olukoyede, raised the committee “to look … Read more
