Ogun raid: EFCC links Chinese-run illegal refinery to alcohol, mining operations

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has uncovered suspected amerciable businesses, including unregistered intoxicant production, timber exports and mining activities, during an probe into an amerciable refinery allegedly operated by Chinese nationals successful Ogere, Ogun State.

EFCC Chairman, Ola Olukoyede, revealed the findings portion inspecting the installation and briefing officials connected the commission’s probe into suspected fiscal and biology offences.

The latest findings grow the scope of an earlier cognition successful which EFCC operatives discovered an abandoned lipid processing installation successful Ogere connected October 31, pursuing weeks of surveillance and quality gathering.

During the operation, officers of the commission’s Lagos Zonal Directorate Two recovered underground tanks believed to person been utilized to vigor and process sludge oil.

Preliminary findings indicated that the operators allegedly obtained the lipid waste, besides called achromatic sludge, from Warri successful Delta State and Port Harcourt successful Rivers State earlier moving it to Ogere for processing.

The committee besides disclosed that 2 tanks astatine the premises contained substances suspected to beryllium Automotive Gas Oil, AGO, commonly known arsenic diesel.

Olukoyede further linked the find to erstwhile enforcement operation...