N82.4 bn Scandal: EFCC Seizes Betta Edu, Umar-Farouk, Halima Shehu’s Travel Documents
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has actually taken the travel files of suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation Dr. Betta Edu, and her predecessor Hajiya Sadiya Umar-Farouq.
The EFCC likewise took the global passports of the suspended National Coordinator of the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA), Halima Shehu.
The trio are being questioned over claims of monetary criminal activity levelled versus them.
The passport seizure belonged to the conditions for giving them administrative bail.
The travel documents are to be with the commission pending the conclusion of the examination.
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“We have actually asked all those under interrogation to send their taking a trip files. We have actually taken the passports of Betta, Sadiya, Halima and others.
“For Betta, who was grilled from 11 am till 6pm, she was the last to be approved bail the other day (Tuesday).
“We required their passports to limit their motion, to allow them to be readily available for interrogation. They are all working together with us,” an EFCC expert stated.
While Umar-Farouk is being examined over the supposed misappropriation of 37 billion naira, her follower is being penetrated for looking for to move 585 million naira into a personal account.
The suspended NSIPA manager is being quizzed for supposed deceitful transfer of 44.8 billion public funds out of which the EFCC has actually recuperated 39.8 billion naira.