While the officialEFCC boasts some success in tackling crime under Abdulrasheed Bawa, critics say that politically linked people are not targeted.
Posted on June 9, 2023 11:53
A taxi motorcyclist ride past signpost of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Lagos, on October 3, 2016. A Nigerian court has convicted four firms allegedly used by a former aide of ex-president Goodluck Jonathan to launder $15.5 million in suspected stolen funds. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had in July frozen the accounts of the companies and seized $15.5 million while investigating Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, Jonathan’s former domestic assistant, over money laundering.
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission under the leadership of Abdulrasheed Bawa has seen rising success in tackling crime, hitting a peak in 2022. But critics say only small-time criminals are being put behind bars. As head of the Advance Fee Fraud section of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in 2008, Abdulrasheed Bawa was a regular caller at high courts in Nigeria where he testified against internet scammers and helped the anti-graft agency secure convictions., an engineer who allegedly defrauded an American businessman of $1 million. Bawa testified that the suspect used forged documents to seal a crude oil deal, convincing the foreigner that he had 1.985 barrels of crude oil for sale.
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