Bank Fraud: Court Orders Final Forfeiture Of 9 Luxury Cars, ₦326.4m, $480,000 To FG

Bank Fraud: Lagos court orders final forfeiture of two properties in Abuja, luxury cars, ₦326.4m, $480,000 to FG.

Follows a petition from a first-gen bank complaining of a fraud committed on the account of its customers, totaling ₦2 billion. 

The forfeited luxury cars includes : one Mercedes C300, BMW 3 Series SUV and one black coloured 2012 Range Rover.

Others are three Toyota Hilux of 2008, 2010 and 2014 models, one black coloured BMW X1 2016 and two Range Rover SUVs.

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Justice Daniel Osiagor of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Friday, July 11, 2025, ordered the final forfeiture of two properties, nine luxury cars and cash to the Federal Government of Nigeria.

The Judge gave the order, following a motion on notice filed by the Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, through its lawyer, H.U. Kofarnaisa.

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Moving the application for the final forfeiture, Kofarnaisa told the court that the application was supported by an affidavit deposed to by Sulaiman Aminu Muhammad, an investigating officer of the EFCC.

In the affidavit, Muhammad told the court that the Commission received a petition from a first generation bank complaining of a monumental fraud allegedly committed on the account of some of its customers, totaling. ₦2,007,000,000 (Two Billion Seven Million Naira).

The forfeited luxury cars includes : one Mercedes-Benz C300, one gray coloured BMW 3 Series SUV, one black coloured 2012 Range Rover, three Toyota Hilux of 2008, 2010 and 2014 models, one black coloured X1 2016 and two Range Rover SUVs.

Also to be forfeited are the cash sum of ₦326,400,000 (Three Hundred and Twenty Six Million, Four Hundred Thousand Naira) and another $480,000 (Four Hundred and Eighty Thousand United States Dollars) and two properties in Abuja.

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