A combined photo of NCS and EFCC logos
By Victory OgheneÂ
The Nigeria Customs Service has handed passenger Duru Damian to the Economic and Financial Crimes for allegedly failing to declare $59,000 at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
The Area Comptroller of the NCS at the airport, E. I. Harrison, handed over the suspect to the anti-crime agency.
The EFCC, in a statement on Tuesday by its spokesman, Dele Oyewale, said Damian was intercepted by operatives of the NCS during a routine check at the Anti-Money Laundering/Countering the Financing of Terrorism Currency Declaration Desk on Monday, August 11, 2025.
He added that the suspect, who was scheduled to travel on Emirates Airline to Dubai, initially declared possession of $10,000.
Oyewale said a subsequent search revealed an additional $49,000, bringing the total to $59,000.
Receiving the suspect, the Acting Zonal Director of the EFCC Lagos Zonal Directorate 2, ACE I Ahmed Ghali, said the commission would continue to enforce the law.
“We are here to take over one of the recalcitrant Nigerians who do not want to abide by the law in relation to money laundering. But we will not relent in enforcing the law.
“All that we are saying is that laws are meant to be obeyed”
