N82.4bn Scandal: EFCC Seizes Betta Edu, Umar-Farouk, Halima Shehu’s Journey Paperwork

N82.4bn Scandal: EFCC Seizes Betta Edu, Umar-Farouk, Halima Shehu’s Journey Paperwork

The Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC) has seized the journey paperwork of suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation Dr. Betta Edu, and her predecessor Hajiya Sadiya Umar-Farouq.

The EFCC additionally impounded the worldwide passports of the suspended Nationwide Coordinator of the Nationwide Social Funding Programme Company (NSIPA), Halima Shehu.

The trio are being interrogated over allegations of economic crime levelled in opposition to them.

The passport seizure was a part of the circumstances for granting them administrative bail.

The journey papers are to be with the fee pending the conclusion of the investigation.

“We have now requested all these underneath interrogation to submit their travelling paperwork. We have now seized the passports of Betta, Sadiya, Halima and others.

“For Betta, who was grilled from 11 am until 6pm, she was the final to be granted bail yesterday (Tuesday).

“We demanded their passports to limit their motion, to allow them to be accessible for interrogation. They’re all cooperating with us,” an EFCC insider mentioned.

Whereas Umar-Farouk is being investigated over the alleged misappropriation of 37 billion naira, her successor is being probed for looking for to switch 585 million naira into a personal account.

The suspended NSIPA boss is being quizzed for alleged fraudulent switch of 44.8 billion public funds out of which the EFCC has recovered 39.8 billion naira.