$200bn Scam: EFCC Seals Off Dubai property firm over money laundering

Hamilton Nwosa
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As part of the ongoing probe of the laundering of over $200billion loot in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) by former political office holders, operatives of the EFCC today, July 13th 2016, stormed the office of a Dubai property firm, The First Group Company, in Abuja.

The EFCC team raided the company’s seventh-floor office at the Bank of Industry building in the Central Business District of the Federal Capital Territory after obtaining a search warrant. The company is also being investigated for allegedly defrauding suspecting Nigerians by luring them to invest in real estate in Dubai.

A prominent Nigerian is alleged to have lost about $402, 000 in a phony real estate transaction with the company. Details later.

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