The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit has disagreed with the 2021 Mutual Assessment Evaluation on Nigeria released by the Economic Community of West African States agency, the Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering.
The NFIU said the report was outdated and based on “a 2019 country evaluation report which is literally stale and irrelevant today”.
The GIABA had in its report said that N18 billion was being laundered through the nation’s financial system annually by a terrorist group, the Islamic State West Africa Province.
The report…
