The leadership of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has vowed that investors’ funds moved by operators of CBEX, a digital trading platform would be recovered.
EFCC’s spokesperson, Dele Oyewale while speaking on Channels Television on Wednesday said the commission is already on the trail of the operators of CBEX.
Several Nigerians were left devastated after the trading platform packed up with over N1 trillion of individual investors’ funds.
While the EFCC had earlier said that it was working with INTERPOL to track the operators, Oyewale noted the commission did not have to wait for Nigerians before working on tracking CBEX operators.
“We were not waiting for Nigerians to call us before we started our work, of course, we have been working.
“We were not beaten by what happened. Our dragnet is wide, our intelligence is very effective, and we were tracking that digital trading platform.
“We were tracking it, and we profiled several things concerning the platform. You will recall that on March 11 this year, the executive chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede, had called to instruct us to alert Nigerians,” Oyewale said.
He also stated that over 58 Ponzi Schemes have been listed by the EFCC to help Nigerians stay abreast of some of their activities.
Oyewale also said that the commission has always been proactive in carrying out its responsibilities.
“No, it will be very irresponsible and unprofessional if the EFCC says that you have lost your money; there is nothing the commission can do about it.
“Investors are going to get their money back, and we are already working on that. Everything I’m saying is that this kind of thing could have been averted,” he added.
