The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) says its officials seized gold worth N211 million being
illegally transported through the Murtala Mohammed International Airport
(MMIA), Lagos.
Tony Orilade, EFCC acting head,
media and publicity, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja.
According to Orilade, the package
was to be taken to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
Although unnamed, the EFCC
official said the suspect was nabbed at the point of departure and has been
cooperating with the commission to lay hold of his accomplice.
“Following intelligence reports,
the operatives on November 9, 2018 uncovered the gold weighing about 35kg just
at the point of departure of a suspect currently in the EFCC’s custody,” the
statement read.
“Meanwhile, the suspect is
cooperating with operatives.”
Orilade said the Nigerian Customs
Service had in March 2017, intercepted bags of money containing a total of N49
million cash.
The money, he said, was being
illegally transported by one Adamu Rabiu Mohammed who was heading to Dubai,
through the Kaduna International Airport.
Section 2(3) of the Money
Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 prohibits individuals coming into or leaving
the country from carrying an excess of $10,000 in “cash or negotiable
instruments”, except the amount is declared to the NCS.
Anyone who fails to declare or
makes false declaration under section 2(5) “shall be liable on conviction to
forfeit the undeclared funds or negotiable instrument or to imprisonment of not
less than two (2) years or to both.”
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