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Abdulrasheed Bawa, The chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, says the EFCC is vigorously going after real estates in Abuja, Lagos, and Port Harcourt.

Speaking Thursday at the media briefing organized by the Presidential Communication Team at the State House, Abuja, he identified the real estate sector as a major conduit for money laundering.

Bawa said 90 to 100 percent of stolen public funds were used for the procurement of houses and lands.

“Estates are cropping up in Abuja left, right, center every day. There are estates in this country that are sold off-plan, sold, and paid for.

So, it’s a huge problem that we need to work with the media to unearth this issue. On our part, we’re vigorously going after that, after the real estates, particularly in Abuja, Lagos, and Port Harcourt. That is an avenue that we’ve identified as an area where they’re hiding money.”

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He said the commission would go after car, jewelry dealers, and real estate developers who might be serving as conduits for money laundering.

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Bawa said the commission was investigating the withdrawal of over N5bn from the treasury of one state in the country.

He said he was not referring to a serving minister in his recent narration of how a minister purchased a property through a bank chief.

He had on Tuesday in an interview on Channels Television, said the EFCC investigated a female minister, who bought $37.5million property from a bank and deposited $20million cash.

“From the time I took over, we’ve recovered over N6billion, over $161 million, over £13,000, €1,730, 200 Canadian dollars, CFA 373,000, ¥8,430.

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“We’ve recovered 30 real estates, one carpet, 13 electronics, one farmland, one factory, two motorcycles, one filling station, and about 32 automobiles.”

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