The Economic
and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) Gombe zonal office, says it has convicted
seven persons for various crimes and recovered N110, 820,023.53 million within
the last seven months. Malam Aminu Ado Aliyu, Head of operations
EFCC Zonal
office Gombe who made this known in a press briefing in Gombe on Tuesday said
N79, 074, 743.53 of the amount were in draft and N31, 745,280 in cash. Aliyu
said the office arrested 191 suspects arising from various petitions received
with some of the cases still under investigation.
He said the office had also
secured seven convictions and more convictions were still being awaited as 54
cases are currently under prosecutions. He further explained that the
Commission is not only concern with ridding the society of economic and
financial crimes by sending criminals to jail, but also forestalling crime by
alerting and sensitizing the public on how fraudsters operate.
This he said the
Commission does locally through radio and television programmes aired twice a
week.
The EFCC Head of Operations particularly commended members of the public
for volunteering the information that led to the cracking of some syndicates,
especially those involved in fertilisers, palm oil and petroleum products
adulteration in Gombe He nevertheless appealed to the public to always
volunteer information and report any suspected financial crime being
perpetrated within the society. The Gombe zonal office of the EFCC covers
Adamawa, Bauchi, and Gombe and Taraba states.
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