EFCC Arrests 3 FAAN Staff For N100m Fraud Using 8 Accounts

The EFCC, on August 2, 2016 captured a level six officer of the Accounts Department of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, Christy Olabode, for a claimed extortion to the tune of N100 million. Additionally captured was her more youthful sibling, Abdul-Shehu Obaze, a staff at the Commercial Department of FAAN in Ilorin, Kwara State, and Dominic Ojo, an IT officer at FAAN Headquarters, Lagos. Her capture took after a mysterious request, which showed that she supposedly redirected the said entirety, by embeddings names of non-FAAN staff into its finance. She professedly contrived with Obaze, to execute the misrepresentation.

Obaze was found to have kept up at the very least eight records in seven new era banks, which were utilized to get the assets for forward circulation to "a few high positioning officers inside the FAAN". The assets were being paid into his different ledgers with the story, "Furniture Allowance". In any case, while recompense for FAAN's furniture is typically paid once in three years, Obaze got the "remittance" a few times inside a year.

Examinations did by the EFCC uncovered that the extortion had gone ahead since 2013. It uncovered a finance with names of some dead, resigned and withdrew staff of FAAN recorded against Obaze's distinctive ledgers. Upon cross examination, Obaze, a level nine officer, admitted that other FAAN authorities were included in the enormous misrepresentation, including Olabode's better half who works in the Human Resources branch of FAAN. Olabode and Ojo at present appreciate regulatory safeguard, while Obaze stays in EFCC guardianship. They would be charged to court when examinations are finished up.