The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has picked up a German buisnessman in relation to the $2.1 billion arms scandal rocking the immediate past administration of Goodluck Jonathan.
Sources in the EFCC told Punch that the foreign national was picked up last Monday. It was learned that the German national was arrested in relation to millions of dollars he was given by the Office of the National Security Adviser to procure arms and ammunitions for Nigerian troops.
The source told Punch, “There is this foreigner that is being detained by the EFCC over the arms deal controversy. He has spent over a week in the cell. He was picked up on December 28, 2015 and has been in detention since then.
“He is being detained because he was involved in some of the security deals with the military officer, who is being detained as a result of the same arms issue.
“They paid him a huge sum in dollars but he is believed to have spent a fraction of the money on the training (of troops); so, they are grilling him on how to get the remaining amount from him.”