OPERATIVES of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Friday, raided the office of a Swiss logistics company, Panalpina, in Lagos and arrested 11 of its top officials over an alleged distribution of $240 million bribes to some officials in Nigeria and other countries.
This was contained in a statement by the commission’s Head of Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Babafemi.
According to the statement, those arrested during the raid included the General Manager, Trevor Burrell; Head of Finance, Buehler Alphonso; Airfreight Coordinator, Mark Daud and Willem Heck.
Others are Joseph Ikpong, Edward Iweanya, Augustine Ilevbaodion, Uche Ojogho, Udoh Emmanuel, Moses Oyekunle, and Victor Adenedimoh.
The company, which has changed its name in Nigeria to Premier Logistics Solution Nigeria Limited, was said to have, along with another multinational company operating in the country, distributed bribes worth over $240 million to some Nigerian officials and others in about six countries between 2001 and 2006.
All the arrested suspects are presently undergoing interrogation at the commission’s office, the EFCC said.
The commission had, on Thursday, carried out a similar exercise in Halliburton office in Lagos where 10 of its officials were arrested while the chief executive officers of Saipem Construction Company, Giuseppe Surace and Technip Offshore Nigeria Limited, Frank Pliya, were equally picked.