The Economic and Financial Crime Commission,EFCC, has arrested one Imaobong Akon Esu-Nte, a level 14 officer the head of Capital Accounts at the Nigerian Prisons Service, NPS, Abuja, for alleged corruption, money laundering and abuse of public office.
Esu-Nte who was posted from Federal Ministry of Finance to Nigerian Prison Service, was picked up on Tuesday and grilled for hours over huge sum of money found traced to her account.
Her arrest came following intelligent report that she is been using her office to transact business as a private contractor in violation of extant public service regulation, which forbids civil servants from doing so.
According to investigators her lifestyle of opulence surpasses her salary of N121,460 per month
N200 million was traced to companies owned by her and her children, the EFCC said the woman had also been remitting money amounting to N60 million into the account of an Abuja-based Pentecostal church.
She is also said to be in possession of several exotic cars and property in various parts of Abuja,she also own palatial mansion, a duplex with two-bedroom Boys Quarters at Sun City Estate, Abuja and another duplex at Karu Extension, Abuja, now nearing completion.EFCC discloses.
Recovered from her at the time of arrest were top range automobile, they include a Mercedes Benz ML 350 4matic, Mercedes Benz GL 500 and a Toyota Sienna.
The suspect “is the promoter and signatory to the accounts of three companies: Abasiaga Global Resources Limited, Abasiono Nigeria Limited and Ememima Global Ventures Limited, which she established shortly after being posted to the NPS.” all the directors are the suspect’s children. She was also said to be the owner of two other companies- Darima Properties and ID Petroleum, into which a huge amount of unjustified cash had been flowing into steadily.
The accounts of her companies were said to have recorded an inflow of about N200million between 2009 and now.Her arrest was confirmed by EFCC Wilson Uwujaren
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