{"id":71942,"date":"2018-12-21T20:14:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T19:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=71942"},"modified":"2018-12-21T20:14:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T19:14:28","slug":"efcc-intercepts-2-8-million-at-enugu-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=71942","title":{"rendered":"EFCC intercepts $2.8 million at Enugu Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday intercepted $2.8million from two people suspected to be money launderers at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu.<\/p>\n

This was disclosed in a statement issued by the EFCC acting spokesman, Tony Orilade, and made available to newsmen.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cthe suspects, namely Ighoh Augustine and Ezekwe Emmanuel, allegedly working for a company: Bankers Warehouse, were nabbed based on intelligence report.\u201d<\/p>\n

EFCC said upon their arrests, they were caught with consignments of two suitcases, containing $1.4 million each, totalling $2.8 million, at the departure lounge of the airport while about to board an Arik Air evening flight to Lagos.<\/p>\n

The statement read, \u201cDuring interrogation, the suspects confessed that they have been in the business of conveying cash for \u201csome notable banks\u201d, for over six years and were in the process of doing same for Union Bank Plc, located at New Market, Onitsha, Anambra State, when they were caught.<\/p>\n

\u201cthe suspects further confessed that they had so far carried out such assignments, \u201cfour times this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are presently giving useful information to operatives of the Commission, and will be charged to court soon.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday intercepted $2.8million from two people suspected to be money launderers at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu. This was disclosed in a statement issued by the EFCC acting spokesman, Tony Orilade, and made available to newsmen. He said, \u201cthe suspects, namely Ighoh Augustine and Ezekwe Emmanuel, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[866,703,1180],"class_list":["post-71942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-efcc","tag-enugu","tag-money-laundering"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}