The Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has urged the general public to be good
and patriotic citizens by reporting any money deposited mistakenly into
their
various accounts.
The
Commission stated this when Dr. Aliyu Usman Tilde, an academician, columnist
and writer returned a draft of N900,000.00, (Nine Hundred Thousand Naira Only),
to the Gombe Zonal office of the EFCC. The amount was mistakenly paid into his
account.
Three months
after his account officer could not trace the origin of the strange alert, Dr.
Tilde reported the case to the EFCC. Investigation by the EFCC however revealed
that the amount belongs to a law firm that was counsel to Federal Ministry of
Justice in a case that involved a former staff of Federal Ministry of Foreign
Affairs.
Investigation
further revealed that the Clerk of the firm made a mistake in writing Dr.
Tilde’s firm account number when submitting bank details to the client’s
Ministry. Dr. Tilde raised a draft of the said amount in the name of EFCC
EXHIBIT ACCOUNT and brought same to Gombe zonal office.
The
beneficiary firm has been contacted.
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