EFCC Nabs Immigration
EFCC Nabs Immigration Officer, 14 Others for Passport
Racketeering
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal
office, has arrested a Nigerian Immigration Service officer,
Adebimpe Kehinde, an Immigration Assistant, for his alleged
involvement in passport racketeering.
Kehinde was arrested alongside 14 other suspected passport
racketeers on Thursday, July 18, 2019 at the Immigration Service
Passport office, Alagbon, Ikoyi, Lagos, following intelligence
reports received by the Commission leading to series of
surveillance about their alleged criminal activities.
The suspects are: Nnadika Timothy, Oyeyiga Samuel, Sunday
Adekunle, Lola Kadoso, Adebayo Damilola, Adeola Oluwafikayomi
Ajiboshin, Abubakri Adebayo.
Others are: Uka Precious Ifeanyi, Raph Emeka Ibuaku, Henry
Onyebuchi, Christy Odey, Aba-Peter Ajuma Blessing,Ogunmefun
Oluwanishola and Busayo Balogun.
The suspects allegedly conspired to extort money from
unsuspecting members of the public applying for international
passports.
Items recovered from the suspects at the point of arrest
include: Five laptops, mobile phones and several official
documents.
They will be charged to court as soon as investigations are
concluded.
Tony Orilade
Ag. Head, Media & Publicity
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Court Convicts Businessman, Company for N30m Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Maiduguri
Zonal Office on Thursday, July 18, 2019, secured the conviction of
Usman Ibrahim Idris alongside his company, Influential Investment
Limited, before Justice Fadawu Umar of the Borno State high court,
Maiduguri.
Idris and his company were
arraigned on April 15, 2019 on a two-count charge, bordering on
conspiracy and diversion of funds to the tune of N30million.
Idris’ journey to prison started when the EFCC received a
petition against him and his company alleging a criminal diversion
of funds to the tune of N30, 000,000.00 (Thirty Million Naira).
Count one of the charges reads: “That you, Usman Ibrahim Idris,
being a Managing Director and alter ego of Influential Investment
Company Limited, a company registered in Nigeria, sometime between
6th May and 6th October, 2015 at Maiduguri, Borno State within the
jurisdiction of this honourable court, did dishonestly
misappropriate the sum of N15,000,000.00 (Fifteen Million Naira)
being investment of Abubakar Mallam Baba in Investment Company
Limited for telecommunication business, and thereby committed an
offence contrary to Section 308 of the Penal Code Act Ca. 102 Laws
of the Borno State of Nigeria and punishable under section 309 of
the same Law.”
Idris and the company pleaded not guilty to the charges, which
prompted their trial.
In the course of the trial, prosecution counsel, Benjamin Manji
presented three witnesses and tendered three exhibits, which forced
Idris and his company to enter into a plea bargain agreement with
the EFCC prompting him to change to a guilty plea.
At the resumed hearing today, the prosecution substituted the
initial two-count charge with an amended three-count charge, dated
and filed on July 17, 2019 to which Idris and Influential
Investment Company Limited pleaded guilty to all.
In the light of their guilty plea, Manji urged the court to
convict them as charged.
Justice Umar likewise, convicted both defendants as charged and
adjourned the matter to July 19, 2019 for sentencing.
The convict was remanded in prison custody, pending
sentencing.
Tony Orilade
Ag. Head, Media & Publicity