EFCC boss Olukoyede says religious bodies laundering money, protecting launderers
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Some religious bodies are laundering money for terrorists ravaging Nigeria and one is protecting a money launderer, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has announced.
EFCC Chairman Olukoyede made the disclosure on Wednesday at the Musa Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja at a dialogue on “Youth, Religion, and the Fight against Corruption”.
He said another religious body is protecting a money launderer after money suspected to have been laundered was traced to the organisation’s bank account.
On the whole, Olukoyede stressed, some religious organisations, institutions, sects, and bodies have been found culpable of money laundering.
“A religious sect in this country has been found to be laundering money for terrorists,” he insisted, without naming names or disclosing whether the graft buster will arrest and prosecute the culprits.
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