Complete Details Of Why EFCC Arrested Former Imo Governor
Okorocha
Complete Details Of Why EFCC Arrested Former Imo Governor
Okorocha Has Emerged.
GoldenNewsNg gathered that Senator Rochas Okorocha was
grilled at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC) on Tuesday for “suspected multiple cases of fraud and
money laundering during his tenure as governor”.
Okorocha, representing Imo West in the Senate, was governor
between 2011 and 2019.
He was arrested about 4pm according to a source in the anti-
graft agency to answer questions on various allegations
leveled against him including alleged N7.9 billion fraud.
The ex-governor is also being probed for another N1.5 billion
hospital linked to one of his former aides.
The EFCC had secured a final forfeiture order on the hospital
in the court of Justice T G Ringim of the Federal High Court in
Owerri.
The state-of-the art 200-bed Dews of Hope Hospital, Owerri,
was suspected to have been built with Imo State funds when
Okorocha held the forte as governor.
An EFCC source said: “The ex-governor has been on the EFCC
radar in the last three years over alleged N7. 9 billion money
laundering. One of our investigators appeared in court and
declared why he was wanted.
