The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has disclosed that the agency has discovered a religious group in Nigeria that is allegedly involved in money laundering for terrorists.
He also revealed that another religious organization was found to be protecting a money launderer after tracing suspicious funds to their bank account.
Olukoyede made these revelations during a one-day dialogue on “Youth, Religion, and the Fight against Corruption” at the Musa Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja. He emphasized that various religious entities have been implicated in money laundering activities.
Olukoyede said, “A religious sect in this country had been found to be laundering money for terrorists.”
“We were able to trace some laundered money to a religious organisation, and when we apporached the religious organisation about it and we were carrying out our investigation, we got a restraining order stopping us from carrying out our investigation,” he said.
