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Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ola Olukoyede, has said that the case if the former Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, Abubakar Malami, is not personal.
Olukoyede made this clarification when he appeared as a guest in an interview on ‘Sunday Politics’, a programme on Channels Television.
He said that Malami’s investigation predated him in the office, adding that he inherited the AGF’s investigation file.
“I’m yet to understand and see the facts he would bring out to back that claim of he actually said that.
“All I did was ensure the investigation was carried out in a very professional and thorough manner.
“Malami has been under investigation for almost two and a half years after the exit of Buhari’s government,” he said.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Lagos Zonal Directorate 2, Okotie Eboh, Ikoyi, has arraigned an Austrian national, Kavlak Onal for allegedly failing to declare large sums of foreign currency while attempting to travel out of Nigeria.
Onal, who was scheduled to board an Emirates Airline flight to Dubai, was intercepted on Tuesday, December 16, 2025, during a routine check at the Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Currency Declaration Desk at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.
Authorities say he was found in possession of $800,575 and €651,505, which he allegedly failed to declare as required by law.
He was arraigned before Justice Yelim Bogoro of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos. The EFCC is expected to continue investigation and prosecution in line with Nigeria’s anti-money laundering regulations.
