EFCC Returns Recovered N1.5bn to NHIS

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has returned the sum of One Billion, Five Hundred and Fifty Million Naira to the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS.

According to a statement issued by  Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Head, Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, the fund is part of monies that some commercial banks fraudulently withheld and refused to transmit to their Treasury Single Account, TSA, since 2015.

The Commission had earlier on September 16, 2021 released N1, 300,000,000, also recovered from the banks to the Agency.