Gov. Sule Lamido’s Sons Arrested Over N10 Billion Money Laundering Fraud

The sons of Jigawa State governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido Aminu Lamido and Mustapha  Lamido,were arrested yesterday, November 14, 2013  by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

According to Sahara Reporters the two were picked up by operatives of the Commission between 10 and 11.55pm in Kano and have been moved to Abuja, the Commission’s headquarters, where a crack team of investigators will grill them.

Their arrest, according to sources, is in furtherance of the investigation that commenced in December 2012 when Aminu Sule Lamido was arrested at the Mallam Aminu Kano Airport en route Cairo, Egypt for failure to declare the $50,000 he had on him.

Though Aminu has since been prosecuted and convicted by a Federal High Court in Kano, investigation as to how he came by the money has led investigations to uncover a web of money laundering in which billions of Naira from Jigawa state government accounts are allegedly moved into the accounts of companies run by the Jigawa state governor and his two sons.

Read more on this at Sahara Reports