The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has denied the allegations that its officers shared proceeds from forfeited assets.
This was contained in a statement issued by the anti-graft agency’s spokesman, Dele Oyewale on Wednesday.
According to the Commission, online news platform, Sahara Reporters, alleged that the sum of N54billion forfeited by some associates of former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, was “shared” among certain ministers and aides of President Tinubu, in collaboration with EFCC officials.
EFCC stressed that “no official of the Commission was, or has ever been involved in the “sharing” of any proceeds of forfeited assets”, adding that the notion of “sharing of proceeds of forfeited assets” is strange to the Commission.
The Commission posited that the report, which it described as sensational, was promoted ostensibly to scandalise the agencies mentioned and betrays the author’s ignorance of the existing asset recovery and management framework.
“Both the EFCC Act, 2004 and the Proceeds of Crime (Recovery and Management) Act, 2022, are unambiguous in terms of the accounts into which proceeds of forfeited assets are to be paid.
“There is no “platform” for the “sharing of forfeited assets”, the notion itself being infantile. Otherwise, Sahara reporters would not have withheld information about when and how the sharing took place and who got what. The TRUTH is, it simply did not happen!”
The Commission stated that it will not tolerate any attempt to defame its hard earned reputation, and called on the public to “trash the lie told by Sahara Reporters”.
