- EFCC exposes religious organization in connection with terrorist money laundering scheme
- The chairman stated that they obtained a restraining order preventing access to the religious organization for their investigative purposes.
- Olukoyede further revealed that a religious organization was found shielding a money launderer, especially after tracing the laundered funds back to the said organization’s account.
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In FCT, Abuja, Ola Olukoyede, the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, has unveiled the agency’s discovery of a Nigerian religious sect involved in money laundering for terrorists.
Additionally, the EFCC boss disclosed another instance where a different religious body was discovered shielding a money launderer, with traced funds allegedly ending up in the organization’s bank account.
Religious groups protecting money launderers
On Wednesday, January 31, Olukoyede made this disclosure at the Musa Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja during a one-day dialogue organized by the EFCC on “Youth, Religion, and the Fight against Corruption.
In the Facebook News Feed, it was emphasized that religious institutions, bodies, organizations, and sects are implicated in money laundering, as reported by The Punch.
The EFCC boss further mentioned that upon reaching the religious organization linked to the money laundering, a restraining order impeded their investigative efforts.
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The event saw the presence of Vice President Kashim Shettima, Abubakar Atiku Bagudu, Minister of Budget and National Planning under President Bola Tinubu; Lateef Fagbemi, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation; and Babatunde Fashola, the recently concluded Minister of Works and Housing.
I’m his statement he said:
“A religious sect in this c“A religious sect in this country had been found to be laundering money for terrorists.”
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