Agency trains EFCC operatives for improved performance
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By Tokunbo FAKEYE (Abuja)
NIGERIA: AN Inter-governmental action group against money laundering in West Africa (GIABA) has organised four-day training program for operatives of the anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The training, according to the Head, Legal Studies Unit of EFCC Academy, Babashani Sanda, was aimed at sharpening the operatives’ skills in the area of assets recovery.
He stressed that the training with the theme, “Training on Asset Investigation, Management and Recovery,” was unique.
“The aim of the training is to expose the Commission’s investigators on best international techniques on tracing, identifying, recovery and management of assets recognized as proceeds of crimes such as money laundering, terrorist financing among others”, Sanda said.
He also said: “We are set to permanently seize more properties suspected to have been acquired with proceeds of crime even without necessarily prosecuting the owners or possessors of such properties in the law courts.
“The participants will be trained on new methods of asset seizure by exposing them to some very important provisions of our laws especially in Section 17 of the AFF Act, 2006 which has elements of non-conviction based forfeiture,” he further said.
Some of the GIABA sponsored trainings include “The Use of Microsoft Excel for Data Analysis”, “Investigative Interviewing and Evidence Evaluation in Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Financing of Terrorism Cases”, and “Forensic Accounting and Investigation”.
The GIABA is an institution of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) responsible for facilitating the adoption and implementation of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter-Financing of Terrorism (CFT) in West Africa.
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