The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested two top managers of a commercial bank for assisting the former Chairman of Pension Reform Task Team, PRTT, Abdulrasheed Maina, to launder stolen pension funds.
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Maina is on the run after the EFCC filed charges against him for stealing billions of pension funds through a phony biometric exercise alongside former Head of Service of the Federation, Steve Oronsaye.
Sources at the EFCC disclosed that the two bankers, Danjuma Zubairu, group head, private banking and Abubarkar Gwambe, an account officer, in the Abuja Central Business District business unit of the bank, were arrested on Thursday following fresh evidence that they are managing proxy accounts for the fugitive.
The accounts, which have over time witnessed massive inflow of slush funds include two corporate and three individual accounts. The first individual account opened in the name of Abdullahi Faizer, had a turnover of N1.5billion while the other operated in the name of Nafisatu Aliyu recorded a turnover of over N100,000.
The corporate accounts of Cluster Logistics had a turnover of N500million and $400,000 USD. Drew Investment and Construction and Kongolo Dynamics Cleaning Limited recorded turnovers of N54million and N509million respectively. All five accounts have different opening packages. Four of the accounts were allegedly opened by one Khalid Aliyu, a relation of Maina, who was an employee of the bank.
The said Khalil is currently at large. But investigation established that Abdulrasheed Maina is the one operating the accounts. Competent sources in the anti-graft agency disclosed that this nexus was established through detailed analysis of telephone text messages and email communication between Maina and the bank officials.
The bulk of the monies, it was gathered, had been moved through some Bureau de Change operators,who convert them into dollars and then transfer to Maina in his hideout, believed to be United Arab Emirates.
The EFCC has been on the trail of Maina for a number of years.
Before the agency filed charges against him in absentia, it arrested the woman, who served as secretary to Maina during his reign as the chairman of the controversial PRTT, during which billions of pension funds reportedly disappeared from the treasury.
Ann Igwe, who was a confidant of Maina, was grilled by the agency and she allegedly made useful confessions on how the biometric contract allegedly awarded to streamline pension administration under Maina actually became a conduit for stealing pension fund.
Vanguard reportage.
Hmmm so the Anne was the final whistleblower?I hope it is safe mentioning her name.Does EFCC not provide witness protection programme?The way they mention names is really really dangerous!
I pray Maina gets whats coming to him.
Efcc shd go and sleep.
ReplyDeleteArrest today release tomoro
Case closed or postponed iss what we hear next.
Amen o Stella. The man is shameless. To tink that he actually got the position cos of his integrity.... I wonder if he tinks the blood of all dos who av died probably out of frustration of waiting for their pension isnt on his head. The Nigerian law isn't enuf to judge him but God himself will direct from heaven
DeleteOMG! See epic money laundering.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting
ReplyDeleteCorruption everywhere. God help this country.
ReplyDeleteNigeria is just messed up
ReplyDeleteGovernment officials and looting. A lot of pensioners are gone because they were deprived of their pension funds.
ReplyDeleteThose bankers are on their own, the bank will not back them up.
Ann is not the whistle blower. Read very well.
ReplyDeleteShe was arrested and made useful contribution to the case against Maina.
But this man is a shameless thief.
He will be caught one day sha. That I know.
Thieves everywhere you look,small ones big ones all shades and sizes. Even if EFCC revealed the name and address of the whistle blower,The thief will not have the guts to do anything as they are busy going into hiding to save their behind.
ReplyDeleteEfcc are the real thieves... they are trying so hard to divert public attention from the allege N2.1TRN they stole.. and also trying to victimise Sir Steve Oronsaye, for filing an eye opening report to the federal government of nigeria that Efcc is a complete waste of government funds and resources.. and that they should either be scrapped or merged with ICPC which was a crystal clear truth.
ReplyDeletebut since that time, they've been agitated, running amok trying to victimise Oronsaye for his diligent report and they will stop at nothing to achieve that.. but guess what? the likes of Dr. George Uboh.. will bring them down before they will do more harm.. thieves, touts, kings of corruption, the kind of bribery and corruption, diversion and stealing that goes on within the efcc. system could raise the dead.. their end is here.. theres nothing that will change it.. Ms Juliet Ibekaku is there to testify too..
Na wa
ReplyDeleteEvery 1 has a right to bail so they have to Release. But that doesn't stop investigation.. your legal system is the reason for the delay not the EFCC
ReplyDeleteMaina case has been going on for more than 3years, no judgement yet. What a shameful way to waste tax payers money. A man who was heartless enough to steal pension fund mean't for our old parents. Very soon Maina will come out for election as a governor/senator.
ReplyDeleteFor more than 5 years,i am yet to see Lamorde sentence any politician to 3years or 10years in prison with all the billions being stolen. Our justice system only benefit the elites. A yahoo boy steal from white man and receive 15years imprisonment for $10,000, meanwhile our own politicians steal BILLIONS in £€$¥ from us but walk free. Our looters are even given more political/FGN re-cognition, while some are crown deacons/deaconesses in churches.
EFCC remained toothless bulldog, until they sack their corrupt chairman Ibrahim Lamorde. I don't know why the delay in showing Lamorde the back door by Mr President in the past months. If PMB want his administration to remain relevant, he MUST sack EFCC chairman and replace him with a competent crime fighter. They should not only sack Lamorde but also investigate/ prosecute him for enriching himself. Mr President, it's time to SACK Ibrahim Lamorde, he is incompetent and a JOKE even to your administration.
Biometrics Code System. Fastest way to 'suck' cash.
ReplyDeleteMains this is the end of the road.
Pity.
Fucked country
ReplyDeleteNa only God fit help this country
ReplyDeleteI still cant fathom how former president GEJ could be singing transformation agenda all through his six years and every sector of the economy was been looted, even pensioners money was stolen...and we have EFCC,ICPC and the judicial system still been eun by those who aid corruption , This maina should be brought to justice immediately and all those covering up his deals should go to jail with him
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