Alleged N100m fraud: EFCC arrests FAAN officials

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), have arrested some staff of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), over an alleged N100 million fraud.

The disclosure was made in a statement by the EFCC’s head of Media and Publicity, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren.

The statement reads in in part: “The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on August 2, 2016 arrested a level six officer of the Accounts Department of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, Christy Olabode, for an alleged fraud to the tune of N100 million.

“Also arrested was her younger brother, Abdul-Shehu Obaze, a staff at the Commercial Department of FAAN in Ilorin, Kwara State, and Dominic Ojo, an IT officer at FAAN Headquarters, Lagos.

“Her arrest followed an anonymous petition, which indicated that she allegedly diverted the said sum, by inserting names of non-FAAN staff into its payroll.

“She allegedly conspired with Obaze, to perpetrate the fraud.

Obaze was found to have maintained not less than eight accounts in seven new generation banks, which were used to receive the funds for onward distribution to “several high ranking officers within the FAAN.”‎