EFCC had said on Tuesday that it recovered N326 million and $140,500 cash from Ismaila Atumeyi, who is the Kogi State House of Assembly candidate of the Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP).
has moved Ismaila Atumeyi, a member of the cyber-fraud syndicate linked to a N1.4 billion fraud to Lagos for further investigations, the agency said in a statement on Wednesday.
A former bank employee, Femi Abdumalik, who allegedly supplied inside information that facilitated a cyber-attack on a bank by the syndicate, was arrested on Tuesday at Radisson Blu Hotel, Lagos, with $470,000 cash, according to EFCC. “He is billed to be interrogated by another team of operatives at the Lagos Command of the commission,” the statement added.
The EFCC had said in its statement on Tuesday that it recovered N326 million and $140,500 cash from Mr Atumeyi during a sting operation at his hideout in Queens Estate, Gwarinpa, Abuja, while $470, 000 was recovered from Abdulmalik in Lagos.
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