BREAKING: EFCC Exposes Religious Sect Laundering Money for Terrorists
- EFCC Chairman Ola Olukoyede has revealed that a religious sect in Nigeria was responsible for laundering money for terrorists in Nigeria
- Olukoyede also disclosed that a religious organisation was caught protecting a money launderer after the money laundered was traced to the religious organisation's account
- According to the EFCC chairman, they received a restraining order on getting to the religious organisation to carry out their investigation
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FCT, Abuja - Ola Olukoyede, the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has disclosed how the agency got to know a religious sect in Nigeria was laundering money for terrorists.
The EFCC boss also revealed that another religious body was caught protecting a money launderer after the anti-graft agency traced some money allegedly laundered to the organisation's bank account.
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How religious group protects money launderer, EFCC
Olukoyede made the revelation on Wednesday, January 31, at the Musa Yar'Adua Centre in Abuja, where the EFCC had organised a one-day dialogue on "Youth, Religion, and the Fight against Corruption."
He stressed that religious institutions, bodies, organisations and sects are also guilty of money laundering, The Punch reported.
The EFCC boss added that when the officers got to the religious organisation about the money laundering traced to the religious organisation, a restraining order obstructed their investigation.
Shettima, Fashola, and others gather for the EFCC campaign
His statement partly reads:
“A religious sect in this country had been found to be laundering money for terrorists.”
Present at the event was Vice President Kashim Shettima; President Bola Tinubu's minister of budget and national planning, Abubakar Atiku Bagudu; minister of justice and the attorney general of the federation, Lateef Fagbemi; the immediate past minister of works and housing, Babatunde Fashola.
The event was organised as part of the EFCC campaigns against corruption, money laundering, and other vices among the youth.
Court free EFCC chairman, Olukoyode, from contempt of court
Legit.ng earlier reported that the EFCC chairman, Ola Olukoyede, has been freed from the contempt of court levelled against him.
On Thursday, Justice Abubakar Hussaini Musa of the federal high court in Abuja reversed the order issued to the IGP to arrest the EFCC chairman.
The court vacated the order on the ground that the EFCC chairman was not aware of the order and could not have violated the court's contempt.
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