Revealed! How UK-based Investigators Traced ₦1.5trn, $9bn To NIMASA Boss’ Personal Accounts

• …the report traced the bank transactions of Alhaji Jamoh focusing on inflows/Credit and Debits on his bank statements.

Investigators in the United Kingdom have traced various sums including ₦1.5 trillion and another $9,557,312.50 to the personal accounts of the Managing Director, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Bashiru Jamoh.

According to online medium, Pointblanknews, findings revealed that ₦1.5 trillion was found in a Fidelity Account 4020949836 linked to Bashir Jamoh.

Curiously, the Fidelity account with ₦1, 505,890,450,000.67 has Hamza Ibrahim Jamoh with Bank Verification Number (BVN) – 22151837650 and mobile phone number – 08034517410. While the BVN number revealed a different identity, the mobile number registered with the account is linked to Jamoh.

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A four page document titled due diligent report on Bashiru Yusuf Jamoh, the Director-General NIMASA, which Pointblanknews claims to have copies of, it exposed another lodgment of $9,557,312.50 into Access Bank account 0710814478 also belonging to him.

The report also exposed other infractions by the agency’s boss which also include award of contracts to companies which he has interest in.

The investigation, according to the report focused on fraud, money laundering and breach of the Nigeria code of conduct act. This same investigation, it stated spans across all the Agencies under the Ministry of Transport having started with the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA.

Global Investigators, the UK-based investigation agency that signed the report traced the bank transactions of Alhaji Jamoh focusing on inflows/Credit and Debits on his bank statements.

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The report partly read: “Most baffling is that CBN transferred millions of dollars into the personal account of BASHIR YUSUF JAMOH.

“Records shows the withdrawal of $5,425,200.00 (Five million, four hundred and twenty-five thousand and two hundred dollars only) by CASH WITHDRAWAL from Access Bank, Burma Road, Apapa, Lagos.

“BASHIR YUSUF JAMOH set up a company TALENT EXPERTISE INTL. LIMITED with RN: 1488830 to solicit for jobs from NIMASA. Being the director of a company and awarding contract to own company in violation of the code of conduct act section 3 part of the Third Schedule of the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and code of conduct for public officers involved in procurement, Part X1, section 57, Sub-section (2) of the Procurement Act, 2007.”