EFCC: ‘My company owns oil bloc, $50,000 recovered from my residence’ – Aisha Achimugu

Businesswoman and socialite, Aisha Achimugu, has said her institution legitimately acquired an lipid bloc done a transparent bidding process conducted betwixt 2022 and 2024.

Achimugu made the disclosure connected Monday portion fielding questions connected Channels Television’s connected Politics Today connected Monday.

DAILY POST reported that Achimugu had earlier dismissed claims that $13 cardinal was recovered from her residence, insisting that lone $50,000 and N13 cardinal were recovered during a raid connected her home.

According to her, her steadfast participated successful some the heavy offshore bid circular held betwixt 2022 and 2023 and a mini bid circular conducted betwixt 2023 and 2024.

She stated that her company, which operates successful the lipid and state sector, met each requirements and emerged palmy successful the process.

DAILY POST reports that her comments travel amid scrutiny by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, which had antecedently declared her wanted implicit allegations of transgression conspiracy and wealth laundering.

The anti-graft bureau had besides carried retired a hunt astatine her residence arsenic portion of its investigation, with differing reports emerging implicit the magnitude of wealth recovered during the operation.

She said: “There are 2 bid processes that were astatine the heavy offshore bid circular that happened betwixt 2022 and 2023 and there’s different mini bid circular that besides happened betwixt 2023 and 2024.