"2 Chinese, Others Arrested For Illegal Mining, Currency Racketeering" 19 Feburary 2024

Operatives of the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested two Chinese for suspected illegal mining activities...

Acting on intelligence, the suspects were trailed to their mining sites located at Ogunmakin and Ogere, Ogun State...One of them is working as factory manager with Cruis Chemical Nigeria Limited located at Ogunmakin in Ogun State...

The suspects who operate as a cartel allegedly specialise in illegal mining of minerals such as marble stone, white powder, lithium and lepidolite, among others, which they are transporting outside the country through illegitimate means for private gains.

Investigations also linked the suspects as owners of the solid minerals being conveyed by the 41 suspects arrested with truckloads of minerals at Share, Banni, Lade, Patigi and Okolowo in Kwara, and Igbeti and Ogbomosho in Oyo state by operatives of the Ilorin Zonal Command of the EFCC on on February 5, 2024...