Court okays interim forfeiture of $376,120 traced to army chief, Hakeem Otiki

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A Federal High Court, Abuja has granted the request by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for an interim forfeiture...

A Federal High Court, Abuja has granted the request by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for an interim forfeiture order on the $376, 120 allegedly seized from Major General Hakeem Oladapo Otiki.

An investigator with the EFCC, Alvan Gurumnaan, stated, in a supporting affidavit, that upon receipt of the intelligence, his team carried out several investigation activities “which include: making inquiries from the office of the Chief of Army Staff, the Central Bank of Nigeria , commercial banks, Corporate Affairs Commission, Code of Conduct Bureau, Salaries and Wages Commission, interviewing witnesses and suspects with a view to unravel the fraud, tracing the movements of funds suspected to...

The EFCC official stated that despite actively running and managing the businesses as well as being the sole signatory to the bank accounts of the companies, Otiki denied having any enterprise or shares in any company in Nigeria while completing his assets declaration form in 2016.

 

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