N70m Fraud: EFCC Collects BVN Numbers Of FAAN Directors

FAAN

Agents of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have welcomed all the top administration staff of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) to Abuja for addressing. The agents are researching the administrators' complicity in a N70 million extortion as of late found at the organization.

As a component of the examination, the counter unite organization on Monday gathered the top administration staff's Bank Verification Numbers (BVN). A source at the EFCC said the move was to guarantee an exhaustive examination concerning the extortion.


SaharaReporters learnt that Christy Olabode, the real suspect in the N70 million misrepresentation, was all the while being held by the EFCC. A source at the EFCC said Ms. Olabode has stayed in detainment since Monday when she reported at the office's home office.

A source near FAAN told our reporter today that the more youthful sibling to Ms. Olabode, Abdul-Shehu Obaze, a staff at the Commercial Department of FAAN in Ilorin, Kwara State, had admitted that he and his sister were not by any means the only ones required in the control of furniture stipends somewhere around 2013 and 2016.

As indicated by the FAAN source, Mr. Obaze purportedly admitted that he had been piping the entirety of N2.5 million month to month to one of the top administration staff in the office in the previous one year. He apparently said the result originated from the N70 million trick.

SaharaReporters discovered that a portion of the executives whose BVNs points of interest were gathered incorporated the Director of Administration, Ikechi Uko, Director of Operations, Captain Henry Omeogu, Director of Human Resources, Hajia Salamatu Umar-Eluma, and Director of Maintenance and Engineering, Olufemi Ogunode.

Likewise welcomed to Abuja by EFCC was one Mr. Njoku, the Head of Audit at FAAN.

Our source said that the counter concede office gathered the BVNs of the chiefs with a specific end goal to figure out if there had been any money related exchanges between the top administration staff and the suspects.

"On the off chance that the EFCC proceeds with its examination concerning the matter, it is extremely unlikely heads won't move here in FAAN in light of the fact that few top administration are included in this," an avionics segment source told our journalist. He included: "I can let you know that this examination, if not screwed up, will uncover a few other shrouded shady arrangements in FAAN.

"There are some top staff who are afraid to the point that they will go underground to defeat the continuous examinations.

An EFCC source trusted that Ms. Olabode had furnished hostile to unite examiners with some helpful data. The source said the lady may not be discharged until she has given more valuable data to encourage an exhaustive examination concerning various fakes at the flight office.

The EFCC had welcomed Ms. Olabode, a Grade Level 6 officer at FAAN, to Abuja on Monday for further cross examination after it was found that she and others had clearly plotted to control furniture recompenses at FAAN somewhere around 2013 and 2016.

Prior to her suspension by FAAN's administration a couple of weeks back, Ms. Olabode was utilized in the PC room of the records office at FAAN.

She is asserted to have redirected at any rate $70 million by embeddings names of non-FAAN staff into the office's finance.

Source: Sahara Reporters.