The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has obtained an arrest warrant against businesswoman Aisha Achimugu, preparatory to declaring her wanted for alleged money laundering and investment scam.
Ms Achimugu, an associate of Babajide Sanwo-Olu – Governor of Lagos State, is believed to have fled Nigeria after she was billed to meet with EFCC interrogators on 5 March.
Investigators discovered that she escaped from Nigeria sometimes between Thursday 6 and Friday 7 March.
Top-level anti-graft officials, who asked not to be named because they were not authorised to discuss the matter with the media, revealed the development to this newspaper on Sunday.
The EFCC obtained a warrant of arrest from court following the socialite’s failure to honour the commission’s invitation on 5 March.
“Achimugu would soon be declared wanted by the commission,” an EFCC source said, adding that her escape from the country was a betrayal of the benefit of doubt extended to her that she would honour the agency’s invitation earlier in the month.
