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Sections News Editorial/Opinion Cover Choice Arts & Life Business Politics Sports   Subscription Form Click here       Daily Independent Online.         * Wednesday, June 30, 2004. FG renews strategy to fight 419 By Sanya Adejokun,  Senior Correspondent, Abuja The National Security Adviser, Alhaji Aliyu Muhammed Gusau has announced the establishment of a committee to harmonise the machineries of government for the effective control of advance fee fraud and money laundering. The committee, which he heads will also resolve all areas of conflict in the roles of para-military organisations in the fight against money laundering advance fee fraud otherwise known as 419. “The committee, which is under my chairmanship, is expected to ascertain if the conflicts emanated from the laws establishing the agencies or as a result of personality differences. “The committee’s work is progressing and it is hope that at the end of the assignment the functions of the government machineries responsible for the control of economic crimes and money laundering, would have been streamlined,” the national security adviser stated. Speaking on Tuesday at the second day of the national seminar on economic crimes in Abuja he noted that government was concerned about the conflicting roles of the para-military organisations that were threatening to render the war against money laundering and 419 ineffective. According to him, the Money Laundering Amendment Act (2004) made the fight against the scourge a dual responsibility of both the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency. But aside from EFCC and NDLEA, Gusau said other para-military organisations, by virtue of their enabling laws, were also involved in one way or the other in the fight against advance fee fraud and money laundering. “For instance, the Nigerian Police is primarily responsible for the detention and prevention of all forms of crimes in the country. It has a unit called Special Fraud Unit, which formed the nuclear of EFCC. “Similarly, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) is involved in such economic crimes like smuggling, under-declaration of goods, fake importation of documents, among others. It shares this responsibility with EFCC. “Even in the field of money laundering, the NCS is also indirectly concerned. This is because laundered money is sometimes used to import flashy cars, precious metals and valuable jewellery and antiques,” he explained.       Copyright� 2002. All Rights Reserved Independent Newspapers Limited Block5, Plot 7D, Wempco Road, Ogba, P.M.B. 21777, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. www.dailyindependentng.com e-mail: [email protected]

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