The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has urged
the general public to be good and patriotic citizens by reporting any money
deposited mistakenly into their various accounts.
The Commission stated this when Dr. Aliyu Usman Tilde, an
academician, columnist and writer returned a draft of N900, 000.00, (Nine
Hundred Thousand Naira Only), to the Gombe Zonal office of the EFCC. The amount
was mistakenly paid into his account.
Three months after his account officer could not trace the
origin of the strange alert, Dr. Tilde reported the case to the EFCC. Investigation
by the EFCC however revealed that the amount belongs to a law firm that was
counsel to Federal Ministry of Justice in a case that involved a former staff
of Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Further investigations revealed that the clerk of the firm
made a mistake in writing Dr. Tilde’s firm account number when submitting bank
details to the client’s Ministry. Dr. Tilde raised a draft of the said amount
in the name of EFCC EXHIBIT ACCOUNT and brought same to Gombe zonal office. The
beneficiary firm has since been contacted.
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