FG To Probe Anti-corruption Agencies, ICPC and EFCC.

A panel has been set by the Federal Government for the probing of two anti-corruption commissions in the country, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Indepent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC).

The reason for the panel is to investigate high
profile corruption cases which were allegedly compromised by the EFCC.

The committee's name is thr Presidential Committee on Verification of Assets and it will be working under the office of the Attorney General of the Federations and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami.

And the function of the committee includes:

“To identify all parties that engaged in conspiratorial fraudulent activities at
EFCC that led to financial loss to the FGN;

“To analyse petitions submitted to the EFCC against persons and organisations
in billions of naira that were not investigated or investigated and compromised by
the EFCC hence caused collateral economic loss to the FGN;

“To analyse all cases the EFCC took over from other agencies or investigated
with other agencies, and report the actual and collateral loss to the FGN;

“To assess the EFCC’s standing procedure on seizures, forfeitures, management
of seized properties, remittances etc;

“To verify all assets seized by the EFCC and/or forfeited by criminal suspects
to the EFCC onshore and offshore;

“To verify all remittances by the EFCC to the FGN;

“To reconcile assets seized and/or forfeited vis-a-vis assets remitted to the FGN;

“To identify and audit all bank accounts opened by the EFCC and all bank
accounts seized from criminal suspects onshore and offshore from inception to
date, among others.”

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