Finally, FG reveals sponsors of Boko Haram (Full List)

<p><strong>The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit has uncovered 96 financiers of terrorism&comma; including 424 associates&sol;supporters of the financiers&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Minister of Information and Culture&comma; Lai Mohammed&comma; made this known during a briefing on the anti-corruption fight of the Muhammadu Buhari&&num;8217&semi;s regime on Thursday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The minister also said the fraud unit unmasked 123 companies and 33 bureaux de change linked with terrorism in the country&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said&comma; <em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;For its part&comma; the analysis by the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit&comma; in 2020-2021&comma; revealed 96 financiers of terrorism in Nigeria&comma; 424 associates&sol;supporters of the financiers&comma; involvement of about 123 companies and 33 bureaux de change&comma; in addition to identifying 26 suspected bandits&sol;kidnappers and 7 co-conspirators&period; The analysis has resulted in the arrest of 45 suspects who will soon face prosecution and seizure of assets&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Also&comma; from its analysis of tax evasion and tax avoidance linked to corruption&comma; NFIU has identified N3&comma;909&comma;707&comma;678&comma;112&period;43 in VAT and N3&comma;737&comma;918&comma;335&comma;785&period;82 in Withholding Tax due to the Government&period; NFIU has also sent 1&comma;165 intelligence reports on cases of corruption&comma; money laundering and other serious offences to 27 domestic agencies for investigation&comma; prosecution and asset recovery&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;On terrorism financing&comma; NFIU had intelligence exchanges on Boko Haram&comma; ISWAP&comma; banditry&comma; kidnapping and others with 19 countries&period; During the same period&comma; 2020-2021&comma; the organization returned fraudulently-obtained funds totalling US&dollar;103&comma;722&comma;102&period;83&comma; 3&comma;000 Pound Sterling&semi; 7&comma;695 Singapore Dollar and 1&comma;091 Euros to 11 countries of victims who came into the country&period;”<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;