The Nigeria Customs Service, Murtala Muhammed International Airport Command, has engaged stakeholders, including the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the National Financial Intelligence Unit, and passengers, among others, to tackle money laundering and terrorism financing.
The event held at the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria Conference Room at the MMIA Wing on Tuesday was themed, ‘Anti-money laundering/counter financing terrorism procedures’.
Speaking during the programme, the Customs Area Comptroller in charge of the command, Effiong Harrison, said the forum is apt, especially as it concerns inward and outward declaration of foreign currencies, negotiable instruments, precious stones or metals at the designated desk of NCS’s Anti-Money Laundering Unit.
He said since the last sensitisation earlier this year, the command has made remarkable progress on multiple fronts through interventions and engagements, further saying that this has resulted in the interceptions of non-declaration, false declaration, and under-declaration of currencies with the suspects, which were handed over to the EFCC for further necessary action.
