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Original Post Date: 2010-11-30 Time: 11:00:02 Posted By: News Poster
By Erasmus Alaneme
Abuja – Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday said the 12 persons arrested in Lagos last Thursday in connection with the investigation into the $180million Halliburton scam are still being held in the commission’s office in Abuja.
Spokesperson for the EFCC, Mr. Femi Babafemi told Daily Champion that the suspects were eventually transferred to the headquarters of the anti-graft agency last Saturday and that other procedures will continue today (Monday).
Before now, the report on the investigations by EFCC was said to have been handed over to a Presidential Committee headed by the office of the Inspector General of Police (IGP).
Though Daily Champion could not ascertain if the Committee headed by the Police boss has returned the report, a reliable source who spoke on the conditions of anonymity, said the anti-graft agency was the one that conducted the investigation and as such does not need a report to try the suspects.
Last Thursday, operatives of the commission stormed the Lagos office of Halliburton at Victoria Island as well as other places where two managing directors and 10 others were arrested.
The names of the 10 others picked up for allegedly bribing top government officials to the tune of $180 million between 2004 and 2008 in order to secure a Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) contract are yet to be made public. However, the two MDs arrested were identified as Mr. Guiseppe Surace, Managing Director of Saipem Construction Company Limited and Mr. Frank Pliya, MD, Technip Offshore Nigeria Limited.
Daily Champion however gathered that the main suspect has gone underground to evade arrest by operatives of the EFCC. Those arrested have moved to Abuja office for further interrogation where they are now being detained.
The operatives were said to have ransacked individual offices at the premises before carting away documents which the source said would aid the commission in its investigation.
Babafemi who confirmed the latest development said: “The raid was a result of fresh discoveries made by the EFCC on the alleged bribery scandal.
“We have reopened the Halliburton case after the report of the IGP was handed to the commission and we are continuing the investigation into the matter,” Babafemi added.
Asked to confirm if the commission received a copy of the report from the Presidential Committee on the Halliburton Scam headed by the IGP, Babafemi said: “The investigation was actually carried out by the EFCC in the first place, so all the facts and figures are available for the commission to do its work without wasting unnecessary time.”
It will be recalled that Halliburton was fingered in a multi-billion dollar scandal involving the NLNG after an investigation by the EFCC.
The case which has dragged for long with Nigerians calling for the heads of those involved is said to have allegedly indicted many former and serving top government officials including three former presidents.
Top government functionaries including former ministers and their aides were alleged to have received millions of dollars in bribes from American and European contractors to influence the contract to build Africa’s first liquefied natural gas plant in Bonny, Rivers state.
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Original date published: 29 November 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201011291703.html?viewall=1