Nigeria: EFCC Busts 5-Gang Members for U.S.$60, 000 Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has busted a 5-gang members, who are alleged to have defrauded one Mr Michael Firm, a south African citizen of $60,000 in a dubious business deal.

The EFCC, which arraigned the duo of Nnanna Kalu, 26 and Ukaegbu Arisa Oti, 27, before Justice F. Olubanjo of the Federal High Court Umuahia, Abia State on a 28-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence and forgery, stated that they are part of a five-man syndicate that defrauded one Mr Firm of the sum of $60,000 under the pretence of registering his company with National Agency for Foods Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, to enable it supply the Federal Ministry of Defence with pre-cooked meals in sachets.

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