The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday declared Dubai-based billionaire, Ismailia Mustapha, popularly known as Mompha wanted.
In a statement issued by the agency’s spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, posted via EFCC’s official Twitter page, it urged denizens with useful information as to his whereabout to reach out to the anti-graft agency.
The statement reads, “The general public is hereby notified that ISMAILA MUSTAPHA, whose photograph appears above, is wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in an alleged case of Retention of Proceeds of Criminal Conduct, Possession of Document Containing False Pretences, False Asset Declaration and Laundering of Proceeds of Unlawful Conduct.
“Ismaila, 38, hails from Ogbomosho Local Govt Area of Oyo State. His last know address: 21, Fagbenro Street, Idi-Araba, Surulere, Lagos State.
“Anybody with useful information as to his whereabouts should please contact the Commission in its Benin, Kaduna, lbadan, Sokoto, Gombe, Maiduguri, Makurdi, Ilorin, Enugu, Kano, Lagos, Gombe, Port Harcourt and Abuja offices o through these numbers 09-9044751-3, 08093322644, 08183322644, 070-26350721-3, 070-6350724-5; its e-mail address: info@efcc.gov.ng or the neares Police Station and other security agencies.”
In January, Mompha was arraigned before Justice Mojisola Dada of an Ikeja Special Offences Court in Lagos by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for allegedly laundering over N6Billion.