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EFCC recovers $4.48m from fraudster
Oluyinka Akintunde, Abuja
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has returned $4.481million to an 86-year-old Hong Kong woman, Mrs. Juliana Ching, who was swindled by a Nigerian.
The EFCC’s Chairman, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, presented a cheque of $4,481,909.94 to Ching in Hong Kong.
The Head of Media and Publicity of the EFCC, Mr. Osita Nwajah, in a statement on Thursday in Abuja, said the money was part of the recovered funds from a fictitious transaction initiated by "one Basil Nkenchor, a Nigerian, purporting to be Alhaji Ibrahim Abba, Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, in June 1995."
The statement quoted Ribadu as saying that Nigeria was no longer a safe haven for criminals and corrupt public officers, while also assuring the government and people of Hong Kong that the efforts of the Federal Government to clean up Nigeria were yielding positive results.
It said Nkenchor had written a letter to Ching's daughter, Vivian, seeking her assistance to transfer to her account abroad, $25million supposedly overpaid by the Nigerian Government on some false procurement contracts for which they were supposed to receive 25 per cent of the sum involved.
The EFCC stated, "Between June 1995 and April 2000, while the scam lasted, the victims transferred about HKD320million to accounts in Nigerian banks provided by the 419 kingpin and his group.
"However, following a petition from the Department of Justice, the EFCC promptly went into the matter, arrested and interrogated the suspect and his accomplices. They confessed to the crime and repaid the entire sum. The EFCC would soon arraign them in court."
The PUNCH, Friday, October 7, 2005
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