{"id":2646,"date":"2018-11-20T08:17:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T08:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madhousereport.com\/?p=2646"},"modified":"2018-11-20T08:22:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T08:22:42","slug":"pension-fraud-efcc-secures-interim-forfeiture-n397m-stashed-zenith-polaris-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=2646","title":{"rendered":"Pension Fraud: EFCC Secures Interim Forfeiture Of N397m Stashed In Zenith, Polaris Banks"},"content":{"rendered":"

An\u00a0Abuja Federal High Court has ordered the interim forfeiture to the Federal Government the sum of N357,206,311.15, $91,955.38 (N33, 411, 987.32) and \u00a315,050 (N7, 040 , 841.5) stashed in two commercial banks, and which are believed to be proceeds of pension fraud.<\/p>\n

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Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu had on October 26, 2018 issued the order of interim forfeiture for the monies domiciled in Zenith Bank and Skye Bank (now Polaris Bank), following an ex-parte summons by the EFCC dated October 3, 2018 and filed on October 5, 2018. The EFCC had in the course of investigating a pension fraud case, traced to the monies to the accounts of Tahir Yusuf and Bitmas Enterprises.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The judge has also directed that the Commission publish the notice of the order in any national daily newspaper and on the EFCC\u2019s website.<\/div>\n

Justice Ojukwu held that: \u201cAny such persons or bodies, who may be affected by this order is at liberty within 14 days of the said publication to apply for a Motion on Notice to the Court on such justifiable grounds, to show cause why a final order of forfeiture should not be made.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The matter has been fixed for November 28, 2018 for \u201creport\/hearing of order show cause\u201d.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An\u00a0Abuja Federal High Court has ordered the interim forfeiture to the Federal Government the sum of N357,206,311.15, $91,955.38 (N33, 411, 987.32) and \u00a315,050 (N7, 040 , 841.5) stashed in two commercial banks, and which are believed to be proceeds of pension fraud. Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu had on October 26, 2018 issued the order of interim […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[75,1934,1935,484],"class_list":["post-2646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-efcc","tag-pension-fraud","tag-polaris-bank","tag-zenith-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2646"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2652,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions\/2652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}