Bawa says EFCC has recovered $100m from INTELS

Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, said the Commission had recovered $100 million from Integrated Logistics Services (INTELS) on behalf of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA).

Bawa stated this on Thursday while speaking during the weekly Ministerial Briefing organized by the Presidential Media Team at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Speaking about the successes so far achieved by the EFCC on his watch in the last 100 days, Bawa said the Commission did not make recoveries for only the federal government, but all victims of fraud.

He recalled that the Commission recovered a total of $100 million for the NPA from some of the outstanding remittances that INTELS was owing the country.

Speaking on the case of the former Minister who bought a property with $37.5 million, Bawa said he was not referring to a serving minister, but a former Minister of Petroleum Resources.

Bawa had, on Tuesday, in an interview with “Sunrise Daily,” a Channels Television programme, disclosed that EFCC investigated a female minister, who bought $37.5 million property from a bank and deposited $20 million cash.

He had also identified the real estate sector as a major conduit for money laundering.

Bawa observed 90 to 100 percent of stolen public funds were used for the procurement of houses and lands.

“We investigated a matter in which a bank MD marketed a property to a minister and agreed to purchase it at $37.5 million.

“The bank then sent a vehicle to her house to evacuate $20 million from her house in the first instance,” he had said.