VIDEO: Police Uncover Illegal Orphanage With 17 Pregnant Teenage Girls In Imo

The Imo state police command has uncovered an illegal motherless baby’s home where about 17 pregnant teenage girls are held hostage for the purpose of child making and trafficking in Imo state, south-east Nigeria.

The locked-up girls are impregnated and after delivery, their children are taken away from them for fee and they (the girls) are returned back into the disguised house for another cycle of breeding.

The orphanage, known as `Ahamefula Motherless Babies Home,’ is located in Umuaka, Njaba Local Government Area and was run by a woman identified as ‘Madam One Thousand.

 

Parading the teenage girls, the state police commissioner, Mr Mohammed Katsina, said the house where the girls were kept was disguised as a motherless baby’s home, as well as a sachet water (pure water) manufacturing factory.

According to the police boss the girls with age range from 15 to 25 were impregnated by two men who were also arrested.

He said that the building in which the women were accommodated was also used as a sachet water producing company to deceive the public.

A similar discovery was recently made by the police command in Abia state, where a fake social worker; Ngozi Nkwonu, was arrested for operating a fake orphanage where teenage girls are impregnated and the babies sold off.

Briefing journalists on the discovering, the Commissioner of Police in Abia state, Usman Tlli Abubakar disclosed that one Odinakachi Samuel from Ovurungwu Village, Isiala Ngwa South local government area, who delivered a baby girl connived with the nurse Monica Benjamin to sell her baby for N150,000.

 

 

 

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Babalakin vows to show up in court as EFCC declares him wanted

The Chairman of Bi-Courtney Highway Services Limited, Wale Babalakin

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared the Chairman of Bi-Courtney Highway Services Limited, Wale Babalakin (SAN) wanted in connection with a case of criminal conspiracy and money laundering to the tune of N4.7billion.

 

The businessman who was supposed to have reported to the anti-graft agency on Wednesday, ahead of his arraignment on a 27 count criminal charge before Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo of the Lagos High Court on Thursday, January 17, 2013 failed to do so.

According to the statement Mr Babalakin has “gone underground” as he failed to show up at the commission as expected.

But in a swift reaction, the Head of Communications, Bi-Courtney Ltd, Mr Dipo Kehinde, denied the claim by EFCC stating that “Babalakin was in touch with EFCC by 5pm today. They asked him to report at their office tomorrow before he goes to court. Tonight, he was declared wanted.”

“We don’t understand the game that EFCC is playing” he stated adding that “this is nothing but a deep political game.”

“Since Babalakin came out of the hospital, he had reported at the EFCC office in Lagos for more than 5 times. He was also there on Tuesday. He is on EFCC’s administrative bail. He’s not a man on the run. We have a date in court tomorrow, but EFCC wants to give jungle justice.”

EFCC Seize Mercedes Benz SUV, Range Rover Sport, Other Exotic Cars From Yahoo Boys

8 young men were apprehended at the 1004 Estate in Victoria Island on Friday 4th of January 2013. Wilson Uwujaren, Head of Media and Publicity for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) confirmed.

Sources tell BN that the EFCC acted on a tip-off from a resident of the estate. “A petition by a concerned group alerted the Commission about the activities of Olusegun and his co-travelers at the elite 1004 Housing Estate where the fraudsters engaged in fraudulent activities of obtaining money by false pretences and forgery.“

The EFCC press release states

“One of the undergraduates, Hope Olusegun, a 25 year-old from Okene in Kogi State, and claims to be a student of Computer Science at the Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan University, Malaysia. He was arrested by operatives of EFCC over allegations of fraud and internet scam. 

A search conducted by EFCC operatives at Olusegun’ s apartment led to the recovery of several items such as laptops, iPad phones, traveling documents, cheque books, flash drives, internet modem, and three exotic cars – a Mercedes Benz Jeep, One 4Matic Mercedes Benz Car and a Range Rover Sport SUV. When asked how he came about the cars, Olusegun said the cars belonged to his sister who he claimed lives in the United Kingdom. Operatives of the EFCC also downloaded over 80 implicating documents from the laptops recovered from Olusegun.

However, the Commission is making effort to track down other members of Olusegun’s syndicate who are currently at large. Tunde Wasiu Sodiq, another undergraduate and member of another syndicate with close affinity to Olusegun’s gang was also nabbed by operatives of the EFCC at the Housing Estate.

Besides Sodiq, six other members of the syndicate were equally arrested. They areBadmus Akeem O, Ajijola Oluwatosin Emmanuel, Adebesin Olalekan, Raji Resaq O, Ajibola Adeniyi and Adeboye Lamidi.

Their arrest was sequel to a petition on their notorious activities at the Housing Estate. Sodiq (23) hails from Lagos and claimed to be an undergraduate of Brandry University, Malaysia .

The leader of the syndicate, Badmus Akeem, hails from Ayetoro, Ogun State and attended Oniwaya High School, Agege. He claimed to be a traveler who does odd jobs wherever he travels.”

Here is what the alleged leader of the syndicate Badmus Akeem is quoted to have said – “I decided to move to Malaysia to further my education while I do “Hot jobs” as well. I just got back a week ago before the festive period and also produce music and manage artistes.“

When asked why he chose to live in 1004 at the rate of N30,000 daily, he responded that it was to avoid the stress that friends and relations could bring to him – “I didn’t stay on the Mainland in Lagos because of stress of friends when you just get back from abroad.”

Sodiq claimed the Range Rover Sport car which was recovered from them belonged to his mother. This raised suspicions as the personalized number plate bears his nickname – “T.Wizzle”. In his statement, he claimed his mother “decided to customize the car plate number after the name of her first son.“

The representative of the EFCC confirmed that the suspects will be arraigned in court soon. In addition to the vehicles, other items seized include laptops, flash drives, internet modems and cheque books.

 

 

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How Intercontinental Bank Staff Stole N306 Million From Femi Falana’s Account

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has stated that the N306 million stolen from the Falana and Falana Chambers’ account was returned by the bank to avoid a legal action.

A statement  released by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday announced that it had arrested two suspects involved in a N1.5 billion bank fraud

Olayinka Sanni, a former manager at Intercontinental Bank (now owned by Access Bank), and Oyebode Atoyebi, Personal Assistant to Adeyemi Ikuforiji, the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, were arrested by the commission for conspiracy, stealing, and forgery.

“I confirm that the sum of N306 million was stolen from our clients’ account by the officer,” said Mr. Falana.

“But I wish to say that the management of the bank refunded the money to avoid a legal action from our chambers,” he added.

Mr. Sanni, who also operates a Bureau de Change, SIDAW Ventures, allegedly transferred various sums of money into his SIDAW account without the bank’s customer’s consent, the EFCC said.

In addition to the N306 million transferred from the account of Falana and Falana Chambers, the suspect also allegedly transferred N65 million from the account of Babington Junior Seminary; N40 million from P.W. Nigeria Limited’s account; N15 million from Mikano International ’s account; N20 million from Viju Industries Limited’s account, and N1.2 billion from Murhi International  Limited into his company’s account.

“Besides, Sanni also collected the sum of $461,200 USD from one Chukwurah Nkiru, who sold it to him for the equivalent of N76, 559,200 but was not paid.

“Sanni is also embroiled in a foreign exchange scam where his SIDAW Ventures account was used to handle the sum of N104, 405, 000 where only N72,229,000 worth of foreign exchange was paid to the customer leaving a balance of N32, 185, 000 being hotly contested between his firm and the customer,” read the statement signed by Wilson Uwujaren, the commission’s Spokesperson.

Mr. Atoyebi, who is also enmeshed in a N501 million money laundering charge alongside Mr. Ikuforiji, was arrested for conspiracy and complicity, having allowed Mr. Sanni to use his name and passport-sized photograph to open an account in SIDAW Ventures Limited in the name of Akanmu Babatunde

“With this fictitious name, Sanni brokered many shady deals and duped many innocent people,” the commission stated.

The EFCC said that the duo will be arraigned  in court “soon.”

 

Source: Premium Times

4 charged in UK for bribing Nigerian officials over tax

Four former Swift Technical Energy Solutions Ltd. employees have been charged with conspiring to bribe Nigerian officials to lower the taxes their workers paid in the country.

Three men and one woman, all British nationals, were charged this morning, at a London criminal court following a two-year probe of the company, which is a Nigerian subsidiary of the Swift Group of companies, the U.K. Serious Fraud Office said in an e-mailed statement yesterday.

The defendants- a former chief financial officer, tax manager, financial controller and area director for Nigeria, allegedly paid a total of 180,000 pounds ($292,000) in bribes in 2008 and 2009 to agents of the Rivers State Board of Internal Revenue and the Lagos State Board of Internal Revenue, according to prosecutors.

The bribes were paid to avoid, reduce or delay paying taxes on behalf of the oil- and gas-industry workers whom Swift sent to Nigeria, the SFO said. The case was transferred to a higher criminal court for a hearing on Febbruary 22, 2013 and the defendants were released on bail.

“The company itself is not under investigation and has fully supported the inquiry,” Swift spokesman, Andrew Honnor said.