Financial Crimes Investigations: EFCC Operatives Back In The Classroom

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) operatives are returning to the classroom, and the bid: simply to make their financial crimes investigations efforts more robust

The programme launched a weekly training programme in Enugu, aiming to boost quality of its investigations and prosecutions, particularly managing complex financial crimes.

This was contained in a post on the commissions X handle today, by EFCC Executive Chairman, Ola Olukoyede.

The crux of the training is Documentary Evidence as presented in court, with reference to the EFCC’s Evidence Act 2011.

“In every investigation, the burden of proof lies with the party bringing the case.

“This burden is primarily met through oral testimony and documentary evidence”, Assistant Commander of the EFCC, ACE II Okoli Chidiebere Anosike, of the Legal and Prosecution Department, Enugu Zonal Directorate stated.

“A document, under Section 258 of the Evidence Act 2011, can be anything that conveys information intended for recording,” Anosike said.

Meanwhile, away from the Financial Crime Investigations, operatives of the said they arrested 20 suspects for sundry electoral offences in the just- concluded Federal Capital Territory, FCT, local government elections.

The suspects, according a post on the commission’s website accessed by our correspondent, were arrested across the FCT.

The alleged offences included:

1. vote buying,
2. vote selling
3. obstruction of officers to the tune of N17, 218, 700. 00k( Seventeen Million, Two Hundred and Eighteen Thousand, Seven Hundred Naira only).

“One of the suspects was arrested with a sum of N13,500,000 (Thirteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira) in a car parked beside a polling booth in the Kwali local government area.

Two of the suspects were arrested in Abaji; nine in Gwagwalada; four in Kuje and the remaining four in Kwali.

The suspects will be charged to court upon conclusion of investigations, the commission stated.