Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has uncovered a religious body laundering money for terrorists.

The Chairman of the anti-graft agency, Ola Olukoyede, disclosed this at a dialogue on ‘Youth, Religion, and the Fight against Corruption’, on Wednesday, 31 January 2024 in Abuja, said N7 billion fraud proceeds were traced to another religious organization.

He said that the EFCC had found religious organizations, institutions, sects, and bodies culpable of money laundering in the country.

Olukoyede said one of such religious bodies dragged the Commission to court to protect its leader after laundered money was traced to its bank account.

The EFCC boss said the religious body got a court injunction restraining the Commission from inviting, arresting, or prosecuting its leader.

However, Olukoyede did not name the concerned religious organizations.

“We will not give up on recovering the stolen funds,” He stated.

“It is so sad that as I stand before the eminent audience today, our experience in fighting corruption has to do with the religious leaders and even traditional rulers.

“As I stand before you there is a matter we are handling of over N30 billion fleeced from Nigeria, and we were able to trace N7 billion to a particular religious body.

“As we wrote a letter to the leader, the next thing we saw was a restraining order, stopping us from inviting them, stopping us from recovering the money.”

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