The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, says the agency has uncovered a religious organisation in the country that launders money for terrorists.
Olukoyode who spoke in Abuja on Wednesday added that the religious organisation has dragged the EFCC to court to protect its leader from being interrogated after laundered money was traced to the sect’s bank account.
He disclosed that the religious body got a court injunction restraining the commission from inviting, arresting or prosecuting its leader. However, the EFCC chairman assured that the anti-graft agency had appealed the decision.
“As I stand before you there is a matter we are handling of over N30 billion fleeced from Nigeria, and we were able to trace N7 billion to a particular religious body,” Olukoyode was quotes as saying.
“As we wrote a letter to the leader, the next thing we saw was a restraining order, stopping us from inviting them and stopping us from recovering the money.
“Of course, we have appealed. Sometimes ago, we investigated the issue of money laundering, somewhere in this country, there is a particular religious sect that launders money for terrorists. These are the problems we are battling with.”