Operatives of the Nigeria
Custom Service, NCS, Murtala Muhammed International Airports, MMIA, Command,
Wednesday arrested a passenger with $1.1 million at MMIA, Lagos on his way to
Kenya.
This came as the command intercepted over $12.1
million from 14 persons who tried to smuggle money out of the country in
contravention of extant regulations in 2012.
Disclosing this development at NCS office at the
airport, Area Comptroller, Mr Charles Epowei Edike, identified the passenger as
Professor Ofoegbu Charles Ononuju, who claimed to be the director of an oil
firm (name withheld). According to Mr. Edike, the professor with passport
registration number A04008969 claimed that he was travelling with such a huge
amount of money to solve a dispute with Kenya community over oil blocks.
Edike said “the passenger declared the currency
both on forms CDF1A and CDF1B, but claimed he was travelling with Kenya Airways
flight number QR542 to Kenya, to solve dispute with Kenya community over oil
blocks”
The Comptroller noted that the passenger and the
currency had been handed over to officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC, for further investigation.
Giving detail of activities of the command in 2012,
Edike said in 2012, the NCS, MMIA Command intercepted over $12.1 million from
14 persons who tried to smuggled money out of the country in contravention of
extant regulations.
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