The airline boss is said to have diverted 50 per cent of funds paid to him by the National Hajj Commission and additional $900,000 for the airlift of pilgrims in 2019.
A former attorney general and commissioner for justice in Lagos Olasupo Shasore is being grilled by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) operatives.
Eleven vehicles, 29 phones and suspected hard drugs were said to have been recovered from the suspects.
Items recovered from them were listed as cars, mobile phones, television sets, Playstation 5, laptops, among others.
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A banker whose conversation with the fraudsters was intercepted by EFCC was arrested and is being interrogated
The EFCC also stated items seized from the suspects included six exotic cars, several laptops, mobile phones and incriminating documents.
Large quantities of petroleum products suspected to be adulterated diesel were seized during the raid.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it has arrested 37 people in Ibadan and Oyo for Internet frauds.
The former President of the Senate has been detained by the EFCC for interrogation on money laundering.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested former Governor Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa and his wife, Mairo, over multibillion-naira fraud.
