900 Did Not Disappear In Our Custody – EFCC

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has denied claims that the sum of N900m mutilated notes recovered from bank officials currently being prosecuted before the Federal High Court, Ibadan had been tampered with by operatives of the Commission.

This denial was contained in a statement issued by the Commission on Monday.

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According to the EFCC: ” The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has been drawn to reports by a section of the online media alleging that N900 million (Nine Hundred Million Naira) mutilated Naira notes, recovered from bank officials currently being prosecuted before the Federal High Court, Ibadan had been tampered with by operatives of the Commission.

“The reports which supposedly emanated from the October 4 proceedings of the Federal High Court, Ibadan claimed that the trial Judge, Justice P.I Ajoku made the discovery that operatives of the Commission tampered with the boxes containing the money.

“It is important to state that this narrative is false and calculated to mislead the public.

“At no time during the proceedings did Justice Ajoku accuse the Commission of tampering with any box. The only order made by the court was for the EFCC to produce the 106 boxes containing the mutilated currencies as evidence.

“How the order to produce the boxes turned into an indictment for tampering with N900million only exist in the warped imagination of the purveyors of the false report.”

EFCC enjoined members of the public to completely disregard the story as false, mischievous and a deliberate ploy to impugn the integrity of the Commission.