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- Ibrahim Magu said the fight against corruption will be taken to foreign countries
- He vowed to work towards the recovery of these funds
- The anti-graft chairman urged the ambassadors-designate to join in the anti-corruption fight
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared that it will set up anti-corruption desks in Nigerian foreign missions in order to speed-up the repatriation of looted funds kept abroad.
This was declared by Ibrahim Magu, the acting chairman of the EFCC, on Tuesday, April 4 in Abuja at a five-day induction programme for the 45 non-career ambassadors-designate.
The EFCC is going after looters stashing funds overseas
Daily Post reports that the anti-graft boss said this move would help in the fight against corruption and the recovery of loots stashed in foreign countries.
He said: “To enhance international cooperation in the fight against corruption, we will propose the establishment of EFCC desk, with our operatives deployed to collaborate with other law enforcement agencies in our foreign missions.
“They will assist in the investigation of crimes bordering on money laundering, cyber crimes, advance fee fraud and issues relating to asset recovery.
“We can start with the posting of officers to U.S., UK, France, Italy, Switzerland, South Africa and Ghana in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs.”
Magu revealed that the EFCC has a strong network of law enforcement friends with INTERPOL, Metropolitan Police in UK, FBI in the US and this allows it to by-pass bureaucratic hindrances.
He said: “This is evident in celebrated cases we have investigated and prosecuted abroad, especially in successfully tracing and recovering assets of ex-governors.
“They include Joshua Dariye, DSP Alamieyeseigha and James Ibori as well as the fraudster Emmanuel Nwude.”
He urged the ambassadors-designate to join in the fight against corruption just as President Muhammadu Buhari has always reinterred.
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He noted that the economy would be affected by the actions of looters who take the country’s money to go and stash in foreign lands.
He said that “the agency had already dispatched its operatives to some countries in that regard and challenged the ambassadors-designate to be of great assistance to the nation’s course.”
“It is expected that as ambassadors and high commissioners, you will network with other countries’ embassies to assist in law enforcement activities aimed at tracing, freezing, confiscation and repatriation of stolen assets across jurisdictions.”
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