Two Lebanese businessmen in Nigeria, Hassan Rmaiti and Talal Hammoud who were arrested at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos 26 November with $2,073,160 have been convicted by Justice Okechukwu Okeke of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos. While Hassan Rmaiti was arrested with $1,971,920, Talal Hammoud was caught with $101,240.00 (One Hundred and [...]
Operatives of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, December 19, 2012, arrested a suspected forex smuggler, Bash Abdu at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport , Kano. As EFCC had done in similar cases, Abdu will be charged with money laundering. Abdu, a Nigerian but with a Dubai residence permit was on [...]
Nigeria’s Chairman of the Economic and Financial crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde today said that no less than N15.5 billion, about $100million, was intercepted at the nation’s airport between January and till date. The chairman, who was speaking at the 2012 International Anti-Corruption Day celebrations with the theme, ACT….Help Detect Corruption Risks Today, Organised [...]
Another Nigerian has been arrested with $320,000 cash at the Murtala Muhammed Airport. The man, Onwuekwe Chidi was about to board a Qatar plane to Doha, when he was arrested. Mr Epowei Charles, the Area Comptroller, Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMI) Customs Command, said though Chidi declared the money, he could not explain the source [...]
A Nigerian 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 per cent of the $1.4million not declared to the security agencies before they were arrested [...]
Mr. Akinyele Adetula, the security guard working for the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, and on whom $1.4 million was found, will be arraigned tomorrow in Lagos. Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, said in a statement today that Adetula would be charged before Justice Okeke at the Federal High Court in Ikoyi. He [...]
Dubai in the United Arab Emirates is now the favorite destination of Nigerians, smuggling out forex, either stolen or hard earned, out of Nigeria. All recent cases of forex smuggling uncovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, cases of people smuggling out forex or people under-declaring forex in their possession, involved people Dubai or [...]
