EFCC Declares Mompha Wanted For Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has declared popular Instagram celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha, aka Mompha, wanted.

The Anti-graft agency has urged Nigerians with information on Mompha’s whereabouts to contact the nearest police station.

The anti-graft agency disclosed this via its Twitter handle on Wednesday night, August 3, 2022.

The notice read, “The general public is hereby notified that ISMAILA MUSTAPHA, whose photograph appears above, is wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in an alleged case of Retention of Proceeds of Criminal Conduct, Possession of Document Containing False Pretences, False Asset Declaration, and Laundering of Proceeds of Unlawful Conduct.

“Ismaila, 38, hails from Ogbomosho Local Govt Area of Oyo State. His last know address: 21, Fagbenro Street, Idi-Araba, Surulere, Lagos State.

"Anybody with useful information as to his whereabouts should please contact the commission in its Benin, Kaduna, Ibadan, Sokoto, Gombe, Maiduguri, Makurdi, Ilorin, Enugu, Kano, Lagos, Gombe, Port Harcourt, and Abuja offices or through these numbers 09-9044751-3, 08093322644, 08183322644, 070- 26350721-3, 070-6350724-5; its e-mail address: [email protected] or the nearest Police Station and other security agencies.”

The EFCC had June arraigned the celebrity before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Ikeja Special Offences Court, Lagos.

The anti-graft agency on January 12 charged him and his company, Ismalob Global Investment Ltd, with money laundering in the sum of N6bn.

The court, on March 28, ordered him to submit his passport to court after his bail sum was reduced from N200 million to N25 million.