A few days after seizing a huge cash from a plaza in Lagos, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Monday uncovered another N250 million from the popular Balogun Market still in Lagos.
But just like the previous haul last week, the owner of the cash could not be identified.
The discover of the huge cash according to a statement by the EFCC’s Spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, followed a tipoff by a whistle blower, whose information forced operatives to swoop on the market.
The cash, which belongs to an unnamed top official from one of the northern states, was to be changed into foreign currencies in the market in Lagos. The breakdown of the money, which is worth N250 million at the current parallel market rate of N306 to the Dollar, was given by the anti-graft agencies as follows: €547,730, £21,090 and N5,648,500 .
Uwujaren said: “The intercept followed information that about N250 million cash was being moved somewhere in the market for conversion into foreign currencies by unnamed persons. “Operatives responded timely, met the money in Bureau de Change office, but a large chunk of it had been converted into Euro and Pounds sterling.
“The BDC operators found in possession of the monies claimed they were acting on behalf of their boss who sent the money to them from one of the Northern states in Nigeria. “Two persons apprehended in the course of the raid are helping the commission in its investigation. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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Tell them the truth, so that you can just be their witnesses in court. You want go to shawarma ,but road closed
ReplyDeleteMake una continue una theatre. Nigerians are not kids on diaper. The Other day una show us the money that someone abandoned in Kaduna airport and till today no one has claimed ownership of the over N 200 Million Naira. All this una theatre shows is to make Nigeria believe in una useless fight against corruption. Na only una clean. All this is to divert the attention of gullible Nigerians from the enormous problems your useless APC and people have brought on the people of this country.
ReplyDeleteThere they go again! In Kaduna case an international airport has no single CCTV camera to capture the moment the person brought the money, whether the person na Ghost? Is this another case of unknown soldiers? We are tired of this una stories. The points is that Nigerians are dying of hunger hardship and extreme poverty brought about by APC government. Shikena!
Ole, we know you are the owner of the money if your papa born you well come out and lay claim. Note your name is not Isiaka at all we know you. You are one of those destroying the Nigerian economy. The sheriff is after all of you. Animals like you.
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