Lamorde says UK, EFCC probing govs, ministers for fraud

EFCC Chairman, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde CREDITS: PUNCH

The Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, has said that the commission and the United Kingdom’s Metropolitan Police are investigating some serving and former governors, ministers, heads of service of the federation, and federal lawmakers.

Lamorde said that the operatives of the EFCC and the Met Police were investigating the serving and former public office holders for money laundering and looting of public treasury.

The EFCC Chairman made the comment while playing host to the Metropolitan Police Special Crime and Operations Unit led by Detective Chief Inspector Jonathan Benton in Abuja, on Monday.

Lamorde refused to disclose the identities and the total number of the public office holders on the watch list of the commission and the Met Police on the premise that the investigation was jointly carried out by the EFCC and the UK Police.

He said the affected current and former public office holders would be arrested and their identities revealed after the commission must have concluded investigation into their cases.

Lamorde said that investigations into the cases against the public office holders would take some time to conclude just like the Ibori case which took up to six to seven years of investigation before he was arraigned in court.

Larmorde warned that any public office holder who got involved in the theft of public funds would not go free.

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