EFCC Finds About N.5bn Covered up in a plaza Shop

The Monetary and Budgetary Violations Commission, Lagos zone, yesterday evening, revealed yet another huge whole of associated laundered cash to the tune with N448,850,000 (Four hundred and forty eight million, eight hundred and fifty thousand naira) covered up in a shop at LEGICO Strip mall, Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island, Lagos.

The cash reserved in a few Ghana Must Go sacks were in N500 and N1000 divisions, covered up in a shop anticipating transformation into remote money. Depending on data gave by a concerned shriek blower, agents of the Commision swooped on the shopping unpredictable and looked for the personality of the proprietors of two shops, LS 64 and LS 67 which were under locks and keys.

The shops had signages of Department de Change. Inquries about the proprietor of shop 64 showed he had not been seen for quite a while, as they asserted the shop had not been opened for business for near two years. A few calls were put to the proprietor of shop 67 yet there was no reaction.

The consideration of the square's director and a few brokers were attracted request to constrain the shops open. There was no cash found in shop 67, however in shop 64, piles of "Ghana Must Go" packs were discovered stacked on the floor of the shop. At the point when the packs were unfastened they were found to contain groups of naira notes totalling N448,850,000.

Dealers met at the premises guaranteed they didn't know such cash was housed in there, as the place scarcely opens for business. The Commission is examining the matter with a specific end goal to unwind the proprietor and wellspring of the cash.