EFCC Fires Back At Ekweremadu Over Claims Of Being Behind Legal Troubles

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Thursday, responded to the troubled former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu over claims that the Commission is to blame for the United Kingdom authorities’ denial of his release.

Ekweremadu had earlier claimed that the EFCC was to blame for his troubles at the London Court, where he had been detained for an alleged organ harvest, in a statement to Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court in Abuja.

The senator made the claims in an appeal he submitted to the federal high court, asking the court to set aside an interim ruling made in the Federal Government’s favor for the forfeiture of the senator’s 40 properties inside and outside the nation.

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Although Ekweremadu’s son claimed that the EFCC “had a hand in the position and travails of his parents,” the commission countered that his claims demonstrated that he was ignorant of the procedures in the criminal prosecution against his parents in the London court.

While the EFCC did not explicitly deny speaking with UK authorities, it did claim that its letter dated July 18, 2022 to the Crown Prosecution Service, UK, in response to the Crown Prosecution’s letter dated July 17, 2022, “was a mere routine to a counterpart government agency in accordance with the global best practice of information sharing with other law enforcement and other agencies in the USA and UK,” was in line with that practice.”

The EFCC further said;

The response of the respondent to the Crown Prosecution Service was never an instigation or encouragement to the Crown Prosecution Service to detain Senator Ike Ekweremadu or anyone else, as the respondent was neither linked to nor had any interest in the subject of investigation in the U.K., namely trafficking a person with a view to exploitation, that is, organ harvesting.

Both the Metropolitan Police and Crown Prosecution Service in the U.K. are independent agencies with wide discretion to carry out their duties/responsibilities and cannot be influenced by anyone, including the respondent.

The respondent, being a foremost premiere and flagship law enforcement agency does share information and intelligence with other law enforcement agencies worldwide including the Metropolitan Police of the UK, FBI of the United States, KGB of Russia and other renowned law enforcement agencies.

As such, the innuendoes, insinuations speculations and presumptions manifest in the aforementioned paragraphs of Lloyd Ekweremadu’s affidavit are unfounded and unkind to the respondent

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