The New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, Candidate for the Kogi State House of Assembly, Ismaila Yusuf Atumeyi who was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in Abuja over a mega bank fraud has been moved to Lagos.
The information which is contained in a Statement by the EFCC says the politician was flown to Lagos in the early hours of Wednesday in continuation of investigations of alleged fraud levelled against him.
Atumeyi is billed to be interrogated by another team of EFCC’s Operatives at the Lagos Command of the Commission.
Also read: Cybercrime: EFCC arrests Kogi Assembly candidate over N1. 4b bank fraud
Atumeyi and two others, Joshua Dominic and Abdulmalik Salau Femi, a former bank employee, were arrested by the EFCC for allegedly hacking into the system of a commercial bank and defrauding the institution of over 1.4billion naira.
The EFCC had in a statement on Tuesday disclosed that it recovered N326million and $140,500 USD from Atumeyi during a sting operation at his hideout in Queens Estate, Gwarinpa, Abuja, while $470, 000 was recovered from Abdulmalik in Lagos.
Editor : Ena Agbanoma
