Sentences with phrase «about economic crime»

We are here today talking about economic crime and where does the State stop.

So when we talk about an economic crime or business crime, give us a sort of sense of what that might include?

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As economic growth brings about more crime, the added costs for police and law courts and prisons should be subtracted.

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC arrested Mr. Yakubu after about $ 9.8 million cash was found in his house in Kaduna.

Mrs. Adeyemi further elucidated that the existence of a vibrant pro-police group like that of PCRC would definitely bring about a crime - free society that can be proud of by all, adding that with the tremendous supports and collaboration received by the command from the state PCRC, an ideal Osun State that hinged on anti socio - political and economic propensity has been instituted.

He said it was disheartening that any group in the region could hold a protest in favour of Mrs. Jonathan at the Port Harcourt zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, over the freezing of her account containing about $ 31.4 m.

Justice Dimgba gave the order shortly after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission re-arraigned Turaki and three companies on 32 counts of money laundering offences involving about N37bn.

The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, on Wednesday, revealed that the anti-graft recovered about N434bn between January and August 2017.

A former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala, has been summoned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to explain how about $ 250 million of...

It is less clear what immediate agenda this would generate for dealing with the pressures of an economic downturn and rising food and fuel prices, or public anxieties and grievances about immigration, crime, the closure of post offices or NHS reconfiguration.

The charge against him read in part, «That you, Robert Obuoha, on or about the 12th day of February, 2016 in Port Harcourt at the Port Harcourt Judicial Division did corruptly give N150, 000 only to Mr. Ishaq Salihu, a public officer and Zonal Head of Operations, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, South - South Zone, for the purpose of recharge cards and with a view to influencing his decision in a case wherein you are being investigated and thereby committed an offence, official corruption, contrary to Section 13 (1)(a) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2003 and punishable under section 13 (1) of the same Act.»

Recall the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday arraigned Bello and his son, accusing them of collecting about N300m meant for procurement of arms for political campaigns but was received from the Office of the National Security Adviser under the guise of using it for «safe houses».

SERAP's request followed growing allegations of corruption against Mrs Alison - Madueke and the recent disclosure by the Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had recovered about half a trillion naira from her.

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, on Friday, challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to direct the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to charge the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh to court if the commission was sure of evidences of fraud against him, saying «the EFCC appears to be operating a system in which an accused person is first arrested, detained endlessly while the anti-corruption agency goes about looking for evidence.»

Bafarawa, who is now undergoing interrogation by EFCC investigators in Abuja had on November 17 escaped arrest after about three - hour siege on his Usuma Street, Abuja residence by the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

Metuh who has been in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for about two weeks pleaded not guilty.

Buba's order has prevented the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and any other government anti-corruption agency from prosecuting or arresting Odili, who was accused of allegedly embezzling about N100bn of Rivers State money during his eight - year tenure as governor.

The letter read in part, «I would like to share with you serious concern regarding the reasons that motivated this decision, notably the repeated failure of the FIU Nigeria to address concerns regarding the protection of confidential information as well as concerns about the legal basis and the FIU's independence vis - à - vis the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

About 5 people are currently being investigated by the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) for their involvement in the implementation of the project.

Fresh facts have emerged about the N13 billion uncovered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC at Osborne Towers Ikoyi, Lagos.

The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), has asked Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State to present evidence of ownership of the $ 43.4 m, # 27,000 and N23m (about N13bn) uncovered in a house in Ikoyi, Lagos, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission last Wednesday.

The refusal of the Senate to confirm acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) by the Senate and the hullabalo that have followed his rejection speak volume about how the Buhari government may not travel far in his anti-corruption crusade and journey.

Mr Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has stirred a gender controversy about corruption.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Engineers and Planners, Ibrahim Mahama has been ordered to pay about GHC12 million to the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) by May 8, 2017.

The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Kukah, speaks with TOBI AWORINDE about his recent visit to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, President Muhammadu Buhari's appointments and more

I would expect the committee to look into this as part of our economic crime review and to have some early questions for HMRC about the correspondence that they sent.»

Banire had about three weeks ago written to step down as the party's National Legal Adviser following an investigation launched by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), into a gift of N500, 000 given to an old friend, who sought his financial assistance to defray part of the burial expenses of his late mother about three years ago.

Meanwhile, a former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mrs. Farida Waziri, on Sunday expressed concern about the perceived politicisation of the foreign medical trip of President Buhari with a call on Nigerians to cultivate the habit of encouraging their leaders, rather than demonising them.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Thursday quizzed the National Legal Adviser of the All Progressives Congress, Dr. Muiz Banire (SAN), for about seven hours.

Even after making statistical allowances for factors such as psychiatric disorders, economic status, and prior violent acts, they found that those who watched 1 to 3 hours of TV per day were about 60 % more likely to get in a serious fight, threaten someone, or use a weapon to commit a crime than those who watched less than an hour a day.

So says professional killer Jackie Cogan at one point in Killing Them Softly, the third film by New Zealander Andrew Dominik - and considering the filmmaker's efforts to establish a connection between the events in the movie and the economic crisis started in the late 2000s thanks to the greed and lack of scruples of Wall Street, it is easy to see Cogan as an ordinary employee of any company complaining about the lack of vision of his bosses and, on the other hand, the big bankers as Armani - dressing versions of the violent mobsters who inhabit the crime section of the newspapers.

«So, everything in terms of the environment and safety and crime and things that are happening in the neighborhoods... thinking about economic development, the fact that we have very high poverty rates, very high segregation rates around race and class and so all of those things play a factor when you're talking about our lowest performing schools,» Driver says.

CHICAGO — Seven vinyl banners draped this month along one of Chicago's most iconic bridges, advertisements some have dubbed «a visual crime» and «commercial graffiti,» are reviving a debate about how governments raise money in tough economic times.

Melissa Chiu, Director of the Asia Society Museum in New York, talked Thursday afternoon to KCRW's «To The Point» program about artist and activist Ai Weiwei, who is being held by Chinese authorities on charges of «economic crimes.»

Melissa Chiu, Director of the Asia Society Museum in New York, talks to the KCRW's «To The Point» program about artist and activist Ai Weiwei, who is being held by Chinese authorities on charges of «economic crimes.»

For the last two years, the rate of economic crime has shot up by 7 percent in the African continent to about 57 percent (vs. a...