The Dangote Group has expressed concern over EFCC’s denial of sufficient time to answer allegations and submit ten years’ price of the corporate’s overseas change information in response to the latest EFCC raid on their Lagos headquarters.
The administration of the Dangote Group, by an official press assertion, claims that the anti-graft fee did not grant them sufficient time to answer accusations and supply a decade’s price of documentation concerning their overseas change information.
The corporate additionally burdened that the visitation was impromptu and unwarranted.
Recall that EFCC officers visited the Dangote Group headquarters in Lagos over particulars of overseas change allotted to it by the Central Financial institution of Nigeria (CBN) from 2014 to the current.
What Dangote is Saying
Clarifying the incident of January 4, 2024, Dangote famous the next:
- “On 6 December 2023, we acquired a letter requesting particulars of all of the overseas change allotted to our firm by the Central Financial institution of Nigeria from 2014 to the current. We perceive comparable letters had been despatched to 51 different Teams of firms requesting for similar info spanning the identical interval.
- “We responded to the EFCC to acknowledge receipt of the letter while in search of clarification on the subsidiaries or firms throughout the Group that they required info on. We additionally requested further time to compile and correctly current the intensive documentation spanning ten years.
- “The EFCC didn’t present the clarification sought and likewise didn’t honour our request for an extension and insisted on receiving the whole set of paperwork throughout the restricted timeframe. Regardless of this constraint, we assured the EFCC of our dedication to offering the data and pledged to share paperwork in batches as we full the compilation.”
Dedication to Cooperation with EFCC
- Whereas acknowledging their dedication to offering the EFCC with the required info, Dangote Group highlighted their cooperation by delivering the primary batch of paperwork.
- The corporate assured full compliance, actively working to compile and submit the remaining paperwork to assist the continued investigation.
- “As a law-abiding and moral company citizen, we stay dedicated to offering the EFCC with all mandatory info and cooperation. We’ve already delivered the primary batch of paperwork and are actively working to compile and submit the remaining paperwork, in good time, to assist their investigation,” the corporate mentioned.
