Crime
Money Laundering: EFCC arraigns Kogi Gov’s nephew for N10billion fraud
Aliyu Bello, a nephew to Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has been remanded in prison by a Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, over alleged N10.2 billion fraud.
He was arraigned alongside one Dauda Sulaiman and one Abdulsalami Hudu — Cahier of Kogi State House Administration (now at large) — by the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
They were arraigned on a 10-count charge of misappropriation and money laundering, EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, said in a statement on Thursday, December 15.
“Bello and Sulaiman are accused of fraudulently withdrawing a sum of N10,270,556,800 (Ten Billion, Two Hundred and Seventy Million, Five Hundred and Fifty-six Thousand Eight Hundred Naira), from the Kogi State treasury which they delivered to a Bureau de Change operator, Rabiu Tafada, in Abuja to keep or change to foreign currencies for personal gains,” the statement read.
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