A Nigerian minister has been captured over claims he falsely got individuals to leave behind their cash.
Theo O Ebonyi, notable in Benue state, is blamed for cheating his devotees and others out of more than 1.3bn naira ($930,000; £740,000).
He was kept and liberated on bail last year, yet this has just barely been disclosed, the counter defilement authority representative is cited as saying.
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Mr Ebonyi said the news was “phony” data spread by bloggers.
He didn’t remark on the claims against him.
Nigeria’s Monetary and Monetary Wrongdoings Commission (EFCC) charge Mr Ebonyi requested that his casualties pay a $1,300 expense each to get to a $20bn award from the US-based Portage Establishment.
It, in any case, says that the establishment didn’t offer such an award.
“Examinations by the EFCC showed that the Passage Establishment had no plan, award, relationship or business with Ebonyi,” the office said in a proclamation.
“The establishment distinctly renounced him and his NGO focusing on that it had no connection at all with them.”
The EFCC additionally claims that Mr Ebonyi, who runs Confidence on the Stone Service Worldwide church, utilized the falsely procured assets to purchase five properties.
He is set to be charged in court after the examinations are finished, the EFCC says. It is as yet muddled precisely very thing charges he will confront.
In a video explanation Me Ebonyi posted on Facebook around a similar time as the EFCC declared his capture on X, he said the insight about his confinement had been made up by “bloggers… attempting to utilize my body to bring in cash… that is an exceptionally huge phony news… it’s false”.
Yet, EFCC representative Dele Oyewale told Punch paper that Mr Ebonyi was on bail having been captured and afterward delivered a year ago.
“He had been captured over a significant stretch of time, but since of the examination that we were doing, we gave no assertions,” the representative is cited as saying.
