{"id":310546,"date":"2017-04-13T16:34:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T16:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=310546"},"modified":"2017-04-13T16:34:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T16:34:01","slug":"nigerias-efcc-finds-43m-in-lagos-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=310546","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria’s EFCC ‘finds $43m in Lagos flat’"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than $43m (\u00a334m) has been seized from a flat in Nigeria’s main city, Lagos, the anti-corruption agency says.<\/p>\n

Officials raided the flat after a tip-off about a “haggard-looking” woman in “dirty clothes” taking bags in and out of it, the agency added.<\/p>\n

The money was believed to be from unlawful activity, but no arrests have as yet been made, the agency added.<\/p>\n

This is the latest in a series of raids which uncovered bundles of cash in Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy.<\/p>\n

In March, the agency said it had found “crispy” banknotes worth $155,000 (\u00a3130,000) at the airport in northern Kaduna city.<\/p>\n

Apart from US notes worth $43.4m, investigators found nearly \u00a327,800 and some 23m naira ($75,000) at the four-bedroom flat in Lagos’s affluent Ikoyi area, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The “neatly arranged” cash was stashed in “sealed wrappers” in wardrobes and cabinets in the seventh-floor flat, the EFCC added.<\/p>\n

\"Five<\/p>\n

Guards told investigators that no-one lived in the flat, but a source reported that a “woman usually appeared on different occasions with Ghana Must Go bags”, the EFCC said.<\/p>\n

“She comes looking haggard, with dirty clothes but her skin didn’t quite match her outward appearance, perhaps a disguise,” it quoted a source as saying.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More than $43m (\u00a334m) has been seized from a flat in Nigeria’s main city, Lagos, the anti-corruption agency says. Officials raided the flat after a tip-off about a “haggard-looking” woman in “dirty clothes” taking bags in and out of it, the agency added. The money was believed to be from unlawful activity, but no arrests […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[6143,1078,6144],"class_list":["post-310546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","tag-efcc","tag-money-laundering","tag-nigeria-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}