{"id":17622,"date":"2024-01-31T11:29:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T11:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=17622"},"modified":"2024-01-31T11:30:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T11:30:08","slug":"efcc-traces-n7-billion-to-religious-organization-in-fraud-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/31\/efcc-traces-n7-billion-to-religious-organization-in-fraud-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"EFCC Traces N7 Billion to Religious Organization in Fraud Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Barrister Ola Olukoyede, disclosed that the agency has traced N7 billion, suspected to be proceeds of fraud, to a religious organization.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a public engagement on youth, religion, and the fight against corruption, Olukoyede mentioned that the EFCC discovered the N7 billion while investigating a N13 billion fraud case. He noted that the organization obtained a restraining order to prevent the EFCC from inviting its leaders, but the commission is determined to appeal the order and recover the stolen funds. Olukoyede also revealed another religious body&#8217;s link to money laundering for a terrorist group.<\/p>\n<p>Since assuming office three months ago, the EFCC has secured 747 convictions, with a focus on Internet-related offenses. The event aimed to address youth involvement in cybercrimes and promote the use of religion for their reorientation.<\/p>\n<p>The theme was &#8220;Youth, Religion and the Fight Against Corruption,&#8221; featuring the launch of the Interfaith Preaching and Teaching Manual and the Fraud Risk Assessment Prevention and Control Project for Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Barrister Ola Olukoyede, disclosed that the agency has traced N7 billion, suspected to be proceeds of fraud, to a religious organization. Speaking during a public engagement on youth, religion, and the fight against corruption, Olukoyede mentioned that the EFCC discovered the N7 billion while investigating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":17624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-17622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17622"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17631,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17622\/revisions\/17631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}