The Economic and Financial Crime Commission has transferred the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) candidate for the Kogi State House of Assembly, Ismaila Yusuf Atumeyi, to Lagos.
Atumeyi was nabbed by the EFCC in Abuja on Tuesday over an alleged bank fraud.
He was accused of hacking into the system of a commercial bank and defrauding it of over N1.4billion.
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The EFCC Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, who gave an update in a statement on Wednesday said the suspect was flown to Lagos on Wednesday morning for further investigation.
The statement partly read, “Atumeyi was flown to Lagos in the early hours of Wednesday, November 2, 2022 in continuation of the investigation into the scam.
“He is billed to be interrogated by another team of operatives at the Lagos Command of the Commission.”
The suspect is in custody with two others, Joshua Dominic and Abdulmalik Salau Femi, a former bank employee.
The sum of N326million and $140,500 was recovered from Atumeyi during an operation at his hideout in Queens Estate, Gwarinpa while $470,000 was recovered from Abdulmalik in Lagos.
