Stop Accommodating Fraudsters, EFCC Warns Hoteliers

As the campaign against Internet scam and money laundering in Nigeria continues, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has given stern warning to hotel owners across the country to avoid being accomplices to fraudsters who check into their facilities to commit financial crimes.

The Ilorin Zonal Commander of the EFCC, ACE II Michael Nzekwe said the criminals check into hotels for the purpose of internet fraud and money laundering activities, and warned that hoteliers who allow such to continue happening in their facilities, risk being prosecuted and jailed.

Ilorin Zonal Commander of the EFCC, ACE II Michael Nzekwe with stakeholders of Designated Non-Financial Institutions after at the Commission’s Office along Catchment Road, GRA, Ilorin.

Nzekwe gave the admonition on Thursday, June 16, 2022, while addressing a stakeholders meeting of Designated Non-Financial Institutions (DNFIs) at the Commission’s Office along Catchment Road, GRA, Ilorin.

“The Commission has observed a worrying pattern of cold complicity by hospitality entrepreneurs who appear to be hands-in-gloves with suspected fraudsters by housing them over long spells and making internet facilities available to them.”

Victor Ezeja

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