Alleged fraud: Security agencies receive intelligence reports on Lagos Speaker •EFCC summons Assembly accountants, 5 officers

INTELLIGENCE reports on the alleged conviction of the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr Adeyemi Ikuforiji, in the United States of America in 2001 and 2005 are now in possession of security agencies in Nigeria, the Nigerian Tribune  has learnt.
A security source revealed that the working relationship between Nigeria and the United States was explored to land the documents, which were said to be very crucial to the case against Ikuforiji.
It was learnt that the content of the intelligence report, which the Nigerian Tribune source described as “very loaded”, would be used at the appropriate time in the course of packaging the case against him.
Meanwhile, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has summoned the principal officers of the Lagos Assembly for interrogation today in Abuja.
Two accountants with the assembly are also to appear for questioning today.
Ikuforiji is billed for a return to the commission after the appearance of the summoned officials, with the embattled speaker expected to be confronted with their statements at a later date.
It was also gathered that the team of operatives investigating the allegations against Ikuforiji, on Wednesday, moved all the files, vouchers and cash-books recovered from the assembly to Abuja.
According to a source in the know, the documents would be subjected to full forensic analysis.
The cars allegedly moved into hiding from his Brown Motors auto shop at 2, Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, were reportedly yet to be found by the commission’s operatives, who were said to be combing the state for them.

Apart from alleged money laundering totalling N7 billion, Ikuforiji, in the petition against him, was also accused of being an ex-convict and allegedly perjured in his claim in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) forms for his elections that he had never been convicted.
Perjury carries a 14-year imprisonment punishment.
The petition against him claimed that court records had shown that he was first convicted in 2001 after his arrest for driving under the influence of alcohol on April 22, 2001 in Wake County, North Carolina.
The petitioners stated that his record revealed his case-file number as 2001CR040190, with his residence then listed as 2116, Saturn Street, Raleigh, NC 27603.
It was further claimed in the petition that he was convicted again in 2005 for a $22,731.00 credit card fraud he had allegedly committed in 2003.