List Of EFCC’s Most Wanted Nigerians And Their Crimes

The suspect is at giant whereas eﬀorts to apprehend him has proved abortive.

Ijeoma Constance Ugwah is needed by the EFCC in a case of prison conspiracy, employment rip-off and acquiring cash by false pretence. Ugwah allegedly induced the petitioner to pay to her the sum of Ten Thousand US {dollars} ($10,000.00) and one other 4 Million Naira (N4,000,000) for a fictitious Federal Authorities appointment. The suspect is at giant whereas all efforts to apprehend her has proved abortive. The fair-skinned fugitive is 61 years outdated and hails from Owerri North LGA of Imo State. She is fluent in English and Igbo languages. Her final identified deal with is No 20 Oladele Oke Road, Okota, Lagos.

Valentine Iro: This 31-year-old man was named together with Chukwudi Igbokwe, 38, because the lead suspects within the three-year FBI investigation of romance scams, enterprise e-mail compromise, wire fraud and cash laundering. On the finish of the investigation, about 80 Nigerians had been indicted, with a few of the accomplices nonetheless in Nigeria. Iro and Igbokwe’s function was to make sure the laundering of cash deposited by a sufferer right into a checking account or a cash providers account.

In keeping with the FBI, Iro and Igbokwe coordinated the switch of victims’ funds from a fraudulent checking account they managed in US financial institution accounts belonging to illicit cash exchangers. “These cash exchangers, in flip, used a Nigerian banking utility to switch different funds in naira from Nigerian financial institution accounts they managed to the Nigerian financial institution accounts specified by Iro and Igbokwe,” the FBI stated in an announcement. The authorities stated this technique was used to switch tens of millions of {dollars} to Nigerian co-conspirators with out instantly transferring funds abroad.

Authorities Ekpemupolo: The EFCC declared the previous Niger Delta militant chief, Authorities Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, needed in February, 2016. The anti-graft company in an advertorial signed by the then Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, stated it declared Tompolo needed following two bench warrants issued in opposition to him by a Federal Excessive Court docket in Lagos, the place he was charged with N45.9bn fraud.

He was stated to have illegally diverted the cash belonging to the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Security Company. The 50-year-old, dark-complexioned native of Okerenkoko, Gbaramotu Kingdom within the Warri South-West Native Authorities Space of Delta State, went underground and had not been seen since then.

His final identified deal with was given as No. 1, Chief Agbanu Road, DDPA Extension, Warri, Delta State. The fugitive, who wielded political affect in his state, is claimed to talk each Izon and English languages.

Justice Ibrahim Buba of a Federal Excessive Court docket in Lagos issued a bench warrant in opposition to Tompolo on January 14 after he shunned a summon dated January 12 issued on him by the choose to look in reference to the fraud prices filed in opposition to him and 9 others by the EFCC. Buba ordered the regulation enforcement businesses to provide Tompolo earlier than him on February Eight for him to reply the fees, however slightly than seem in courtroom on January 8, he went underground after the courtroom dismissed his utility to quash the bench warrant and arrest order.

The EFCC filed 40 counts in opposition to Tompolo and 9 others, together with the instant previous Director-Normal of NIMSA, Patrick Akpobolokemi. The opposite suspects within the cost are Kime Engozu, Rex Elem, Gregory Mbonu and Capt. Warredi Enisuoh. They had been charged alongside 4 firms, particularly: International West Vessel Specialist Ltd., Odimiri Electrical Ltd., Boloboere Property and Property Restricted and Destre Seek the advice of Ltd.

Ittu Theresa is a principal suspect in two circumstances of fraud, contractual malpractices and acquiring items beneath false pretence to the tune of N1bn and $1.4m, respectively. She allegedly acquired about N1bn from a authorities company as fee for contracts which she did not correctly execute. Moreover, the suspect was alleged to have fraudulently collected plane components price $1,416,000 from a Russian firm and evaded fee.

The suspect did not honour the EFCC’s invitation and is at present at giant. The 50-year-old is honest in complexion. Her final identified deal with was No. 2B Oko-Awo Shut, Victoria Island, Lagos.

Aisha Shettima Nur: A financial institution employee, Aisha Shettima Nur, has additionally been on the run from the EFCC since 2016, for allegedly laundering cash believed to be proceeds of crime.

In November 14, 2016, Nur was convicted in absentia on 10 counts of cash laundering . Investigations revealed that the convict laundered monies which had been proceeds of crime by way of the accounts of her siblings and daughter, in addition to by way of the acquisition of automobiles and stocking of a provision store.

Whereas the circumstances had been ongoing at each the federal and state Excessive Courts, the convict had jumped bail, consequent upon which judges of each courts issued bench warrants for her arrest. The fair-skinned fugitive is 39 years outdated and 5.four toes tall. She hails from Maiduguri, Borno State and is fluent in Hausa, Kanuri and English languages. Her final identified deal with was No 1, Umar Galadima Road, Kawo, Kano.

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