The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has denied in strong terms, reports suggesting that its officials have shared forfeited assets linked to former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele
In a statement issued on Wednesday, EFCC spokesman, Dele Oyewale, faulted an online publication alleging that the anti-graft agency had done what was alleged
He said the notion of sharing the proceeds of forfeited assets was strange to the agency, stressing that the publication was made out of ignorance and mischief.
He said 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.
According to him, there is no ‘platform’ for the ‘sharing of forfeited assets as the notion itself was infantile.
The EFCC warned publishers that dishing out fiction to the public as news was the height of irresponsibility that the agency would not tolerate going forward
It subsequently urged the public to disregard the online disinformation about sharing of frozen assets