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301 houses recovered from two civil servants in Abuja – ICPC Chairman
The Impartial Corrupt Practices and different associated offences Fee (ICPC), has efficiently recovered 301 homes from two civil servants in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
ICPC Chairman, Prof Bolaji Owasanoye, made the disclosure on the inauguration of the Home of Representatives Advert-hoc Committee on Investigation of the Operations of Actual Property Builders on Thursday, October 28.
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He stated that whereas 241 buildings had been retrieved from one of many suspects at completely different places throughout the FCT, the remaining 60 had been recovered on a big expanse of land at one other location. Prof Owasanoye, who didn’t point out the names of the affected civil servants, bemoaned the growing charge at which corrupt public officers had been utilizing actual property funding as a automobile for hiding ill-gotten wealth and cash laundering within the nation.
“Public officers purchase estates in pseudonyms to hide the unlawful origin of funds. That is made attainable by the absence of correct documentation, the registration of titles to land and estates within the nation and the non-enforcement of helpful possession requirements.
A tour spherical Abuja, particularly the metropolis and the Central Space, would present quite a lot of estates which can be constructed up however empty. If that they had been constructed with funds that had been borrowed at market charges, I don’t assume any investor would go away such proprieties empty. In some way they might put them to make use of. So it’s suspected that a few of these estates have been used to launder ill-gotten public funds,” he added.
Owasanoye additionally revealed that the anti-graft company recovered a complete of N53,968,158,974.64 after finishing the duty of the defunct Particular Presidential Investigation Panel on restoration of public property to research some actual property builders who defaulted in remittance and fee of cash because of the authorities.
