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We Have Fished Out A Religious Sector In Nigeria That Has Been Laundering Money For Terrorists — EFCC Reveals

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The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, (EFCC) Ola Olukoyede, has confirmed that the agency’s operatives uncovered a religious sect laundering money for terrorists in Nigeria.

Olukoyede said this on Wednesday at the Musa Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja, during a one-day dialogue on “Youth, Religion, and the Fight against Corruption.”

The EFCC boss revealed that another religious body was found to be protecting a money launderer after some money suspected to have been laundered was traced to the organisation’s bank account.

Olukoyede said, “A religious sect in this country had been found to be laundering money for terrorists.”

“We were able to trace some laundered money to a religious organisation, and when we apporached the religious organisation about it and we were carrying out our investigation, we got a restraining order stopping us from carrying out our investigation,” he added.

 

 

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