An operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abubakar Kweido, on Thursday, said findings in the investigation into the alleged N33.8bn fraud brought against a former Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman, showed that he made multiple monetary transfers from the account meant for Mambilla Power Project to bureau de change operators.
Kweido, who was led in evidence by the EFCC as its first witness in the ongoing trial of the former minister, said 13 entities, who received about N33.8bn from the Mambilla project fund, were not authorised for the power project.
Mamman who served as a minister under former President Muhammadu Buhari, from 2019 to 2021, was on May 10 2021, arrested and detained at the EFCC headquarters in Abuja over alleged fraud.
On July 11, the EFCC arraigned Mamman on a 12-count bordering on alleged money laundering before Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja.
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