The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has linked at least 17 properties to the Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris.
This comes as Zainab Ahmed, the Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning, has suspended Idris, who is being investigated for N80 billion in fraud.
The properties related to Idris are located in Kano, Lagos, Abuja, Dubai, and London, according to an EFCC employee who requested anonymity.
However, preliminary investigations revealed that the nation’s chief accountant apparently purchased several of these properties through proxies. As a result, the commission would need to invite some of the accountant-proxies. general’s
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According to the detective, these assets were purchased while Idris was in office and were not declared to the Code of Conduct Bureau, as required by law.
“About 17 residences have been tracked to him in London, Lagos, Kano, Abuja, and Dubai,” he continued. Some of the houses in Abuja are in serviced estates.”
Recall that EFCC had on Monday the 15th day of May 2022, arrested the accountant-general over an alleged N80 billion in fraud.
Idris was reportedly investigated last year after reports that he gave a family large sums of money in exchange for their 16-year-old daughter’s marriage.
Nura Bagudu, the teenager’s uncle, told The PUNCH in an interview that the accountant-general had given the young lady and her family houses and presents and had filed complaints with the Federal Government.
“He told her to go to Abuja and pick any house she wanted.”
