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SCUML Deploys Software for Improved Services
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- Written by Chinonso Igwe
In furtherance of the digitalization policy of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, the Special Control Unit against Money Laundering, SCUML, today, June 23, 2023, concluded an in-house training of its officers, and the deployment of a uniquely developed software analytical tool called SCUML 360°.
The development is part of the conscious efforts to improve the efficiency of SCUML’s processes as recommended by the International Cooperation and Review Group, ICRG, of the Financial Action Task Force, FATF.
N240m Fraud: Court of Appeal Upholds Conviction of Senator Bassey Akpan, Orders His Arrest
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The Calabar Division of the Court of Appeal, on Friday, June 23, 2023 upheld the conviction of Senator Bassey Albert Akpan on money laundering charges by a Federal High Court, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State and ordered his arrest.
Justice Agatha Okeke had on December 1, 2022, found Senator Akpan, then governorship candidate of the Young Progressive Party, YPP, guilty of seven-counts of money laundering preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and sentenced him to 42 years imprisonment, without an option of fine.
Akpan was prosecuted on allegation of receiving vehicles valued at N240 million as bribe from companies linked to one Olajide Omokore, a contractor who executed a N3Billion contract for the Government of Akwa Ibom State whilst Senator Bassey was Commissioner for Finance and Chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Direct Labour Coordinating Committee. The offence contravenes Section 15 (2) (d) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 (as amended) and is punishable under Section 15 (3) of the same Act.
Nigeria, Ghana Sign MoU to Combat Transborder Organized Crimes
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, and Ghana’s Economic and Organized Crime Office, EOCO, on Thursday, June 22, 2023 signed a Memorandum of Understanding of collaboration in tackling transborder economic and financial crimes, especially cybercrimes.
Speaking at the event which took place at the EFCC Headquarters in Jabi, Abuja, the acting Chairman of the Commission, Abdulkarim Chukkol described the signing of the MoU as the climax of a series of engagements between the two agencies in the last few days.
EFCC Arraigns Two for N19m Fraud in Maiduguri
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The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, June 22, 2023, arraigned one Alhaji Usman Bukar (aka Alhaji Jidda Abuna) before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri on a one count charge of obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of N9, 000,000.00 (Nine Million Naira).
The charge reads: "That you, Alhaji Usman Bukar (aka Alhaji Jidda Abuna), sometime in July, 2022 at Maiduguri, Borno State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, with intent to defraud obtained the gross sum of N9, 000,000.00 (Nine Million Naira) only, from Alhaji Bukar Kime under the guise that the said sum represent payment for the purchase price of a plot of land laying and situate at Jere Local Government Area with a customary Certificate of Occupancy Reg. No. 0005538 and which you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 1 (1) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act and Punishable under Section 3 the same Act”.
Court Convicts Popular TikTok Musician Crown Uzama, Five Others for Internet Fraud
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The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction of TikTok music celebrity, Crown Uzama, and five others before Justice A.A Isiaka on separate one count charge bordering on criminal impersonation, offences contrary to Sections 142 (1) , 57 and 308 of the Kaduna Penal Code Law, 2017 and punishable under Section 309 of the same Law.
Uzama (aka Shalli Popi and Miller Maxwell) was convicted alongside Joel Kator (aka Alfred Hudson), AbdulAzeez Suleiman Temidayo (aka Miss Katie Official), Favour Chidiogo Emmanuel (aka Kate Banks), John Joseph (aka Avail Hollywood) and Bethel Makuochukwu ( aka Violetqmartinez). Makuochukwu had two weeks earlier been convicted for money laundering.
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