EFCC to arraign Bobrisky today over N180.7m laundering, naira abuse

EFCC to arraign Bobrisky today over N180.7m laundering, naira abuse

 

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission will today arraign a popular cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye aka Bobrisky, before a Federal High Court in Lagos over naira abuse and failure to declare his firm’s activities of N180.7 million.

The anti-graft agency filed the charge against the social media celebrity on Thursday.

Bobrisky was kept in a separate cell.

The arraignment after the arrest of Bobrisky a day earlier for alleged Naira abuse.

In the charge marked FHC/L/244c/2024, the EFCC listed six counts against the defendant.

In the first four counts, the defendant was accused of naira abuse. While the 5th and 6th counts accused him of offences connected with his company, Bob Express.

The four counts were said to have contravened Section 21(1) of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Act, 2007.

Counts 5 and 6 read: “That you, Idris Okuneye, trading under the name and style of Bob Express, between September 1, 2021 to April 4, 2024, in Lagos, failed to submit to the Special Control Unit Against Money Laundering, a declaration of your activities of the said company within which period the total sum of N127,780,877.98 was paid into the company’s account number.”