The EFCC have arrested oneEngineer Abdullah Rilwan, for operating a land racketeering syndicate, criminal conspiracy and unlawful possession of classified documents.
Rilwan, who claims to be an engineer in charge of construction work, denied the ownership of some properties traced to him by the anti-graft agency.
The EFCC had said that during investigations into the ‘Dasukigate’ $2.1 billion procurement fraud, lots of properties were traced to Abdullahi, whose source of wealth is suspected to be illegal.
A visit to the Kuje Area Council Abuja showed that a filling station and a shopping complex was traced to Rilwan.
The engineer, however, denied ownership of the property despite agreeing to be in charge of the project.
He only claimed ownership of two companies, Kaibo oil and Gas, and Kaibo properties, but could not give valid details on his source of wealth to enable such acquisition of property.
The anti-graft agency proceeded to carry out investigations which revealed that Rilwan was into many shady and suspicious business transactions.
During a search of his office, several implicating documents were found in his custody.
Properties recovered from his residence in Kuje include; Letter headed paper in the name of Kuje Area Council allocating plots of land, an ”irrevocable power of Attorney” in favor of Air Commodore Bassy Inyang, a “Right of Occupancy” document granted to Henryville farms, Abuja, and other indicting papers.
Abdullahi is still under investigation and will be charged to court subsequently.
