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EFCC tells banks to investigate customers’ sources of income
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, has urged the management of Nigerian banks to investigate their customers’ sources of income.
Bawa made the call when members of the Association of Chief Audit Executives of Banks in Nigeria (ACAEBIN), led by the Chairman, Yinka Tiamiyu paid him a courtesy visit at the EFCC headquarters, Abuja on Tuesday.
He affirmed the commission’s willingness to partner with the association in tackling financial crimes and related challenges in the banking sector. “EFCC welcomes your suggestion of robust partnership.
Bawa implored the bank auditors to take issues of transparency in banking operations seriously, adding that starting from September 1, 2021, it would no longer be business as usual as the commission would hold banks liable where there are established cases of institutional complicity in fraud in the sector.
“I would like to urge you to know your customers, know the kind of businesses they do before opening an account for them because some customers will open an account within a space of two months a huge sum of money is found in the account, so there is need for you to try and query this information including their linked accounts,” Bawa said.
In his remarks, Tiamiyu, said they were in the commission to seek improved partnership between banks and the EFCC in tacking economic and financial crimes.
He reiterated the commitment of banks as lead actors in the nation’s financial system to sanitizing the system, noting that it was not in the interest of the organizations to incubate or suppress financial malfeasance.
Vice Chairman of the association, Uduak Udoh said, “Some customers are conniving with bank staff to loot funds. We want you to look into that area, not only the banks as we are ready to give you all the cooperation you need; we want you to trust bank auditors with information sharing because we cannot support fraudulent staff as they are a threat to the organization.”
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