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EFCC Arrests Two Chinese Amid N50bn Contract Probe

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has nabbed two Chinese for attempting to bribe its top officer.

EFCC Chinese Arrested in SokotoThe Sokoto Zonal Office of the EFCC  arrested the two Chinese identified as Mr. Meng Wei Kun and Mr. Xu Koi for offering a bribe to its Zonal Head, Mr. Abdullahi Lawal.

The suspects were arrested on Monday, May 11, 2020 in Sokoto.

The bribe was allegedly offered in a desperate bid to compromise ongoing investigations of a construction company, China Zhonghao Nigeria Ltd, handling contracts awarded by the Zamfara State Government in the sum of N50, 000, 000, 000.00 (Fifty Billion Naira) between 2012 to 2019.

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The zonal office of the Commission is investigating the construction company, in connection with the execution of contracts for the construction of township roads in Gummi, Bukkuyun, Anka and Nassarawa towns of Zamfara state; and also the construction of one hundred and sixty eight (168) solar-powered boreholes in the 14 local government areas of the state.

Alarmed by the consistency and professionalism of investigation being conducted, the company reached out to Lawal with an offer of N100, 000, 000 (One Hundred Million Naira) as bribe to “bury” the matter.

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In a grand design to trap the corrupt officials, Lawal played along, and on Monday, two representatives of the company Meng Wei Kun and Xu Kuoi offered him cash totalling fifty million naira in their office along airport road, Sokoto.

The cash was offered as a first installment in a bid to offset the N100m offered the top officer of the EFCC.

 

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