{"id":33917,"date":"2017-04-14T10:23:16","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T10:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nigeria-s-efcc-finds-43m-in-lagos-flat\/"},"modified":"2017-04-14T10:23:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T10:23:13","slug":"nigeria-s-efcc-finds-43m-in-lagos-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nigeria-s-efcc-finds-43m-in-lagos-flat\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s EFCC &#8216;finds $43m in Lagos flat&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{More than $43m (\u00a334m) has been seized from a flat in Nigeria&#8217;s main city, Lagos, the anti-corruption agency says.}<\/p>\n<p>Officials raided the flat after a tip-off about a &#8220;haggard-looking&#8221; woman in &#8220;dirty clothes&#8221; taking bags in and out of it, the agency added.<\/p>\n<p>The money was believed to be from unlawful activity, but no arrests have as yet been made, the agency added.<\/p>\n<p>This is the latest in a series of raids which uncovered bundles of cash in Nigeria, Africa&#8217;s biggest economy.<\/p>\n<p>In March, the agency said it had found &#8220;crispy&#8221; banknotes worth $155,000 (\u00a3130,000) at the airport in northern Kaduna city.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from US notes worth $43.4m, investigators found nearly \u00a327,800 and some 23m naira ($75,000) at the four-bedroom flat in Lagos&#8217;s affluent Ikoyi area, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;neatly arranged&#8221; cash was stashed in &#8220;sealed wrappers&#8221; in wardrobes and cabinets in the seventh-floor flat, the EFCC added.<\/p>\n<p>Guards told investigators that no-one lived in the flat, but a source reported that a &#8220;woman usually appeared on different occasions with Ghana Must Go bags&#8221;, the EFCC said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She comes looking haggard, with dirty clothes but her skin didn&#8217;t quite match her outward appearance, perhaps a disguise,&#8221; it quoted a source as saying.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-19372 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/nigeria.png\" alt=\"The money was neatly arranged and hidden in wardrobes, investigators say\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:BBC <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{More than $43m (\u00a334m) has been seized from a flat in Nigeria&#8217;s main city, Lagos, the anti-corruption agency says.} Officials raided the flat after a tip-off about a &#8220;haggard-looking&#8221; woman in &#8220;dirty clothes&#8221; taking bags in and out of it, the agency added. The money was believed to be from unlawful activity, but no arrests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[100],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-33917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","tag-africa","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33917"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=33917"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=33917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}