JUST-IN: EFCC Arrests Racketeers Of New Naira Notes In Abuja News
arrested members of a syndicate of currency racketeers hoarding and trading the redesigned Naira notes.EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, said the operations followed intelligence on activities of unscrupulous currency speculators, who were exploiting desperate citizens by offering them the new Naira notes for foreign currencies at below the going rate.
He said the suspects have made useful statements, including disclosure that they were acting in cohort with some unscrupulous officials of money deposit banks.Uwujaren added that the EFCC will extend the operation to all the major commercial centres of the country until all the syndicates involved in the illegal trade were demobilised.
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