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DSS Agents Stole Saraki's Money - Sahara Reporters by gerald01: 9:32pm On Dec 06, 2015
The Department of State Security (DSS) today issued a release disclosing that some its agents took part in robbing a Bureau De Change in Abuja. Curiously, the agency’s release, which was signed by a spokesman, Tony Opuiyo, failed to provide details of the robbery, apparently in an effort to cover up the ultimate ownership of the stolen money.

However, an investigation by SaharaReporters confirmed that the robbery took place on November 20, 2015 near the home of Senate President Bukola Saraki in Abuja.

Mr. Saraki had frequently used bureau de change agents to carry out money laundering since his days as governor of Kwara State, a fact detailed in police reports of his money laundering activities.

SaharaReporters learnt that when Mr. Saraki needed some cash with which to bribe judges handling his numerous challenges to his ongoing trial at the Code of Conduct Bureau, he often called on bureau de change agents to help transport the cash, sometimes after converting it to foreign currency, which is much easier to move around.

Our reliable sources, in confirming Mr. Saraki’s part in the bizarre heist, said the DSS had yet to determine the exact amount of cash Mr. Saraki was trying to raise at the time of the robbery, but they insisted it was in billions of naira.

A source familiar with the DSS investigations said the agency’s operatives attached to the Senate President were always aware of the senator’s procurement and movement of cash. However, on this occasion, Mr. Saraki decided not to use his DSS agents to escort the cash, since he feared “all eyes were on him and on some of his details, too.” Instead, the bureau de change operator was to make his own arrangement for police officers to accompany him as he moved the cash to Mr. Saraki’s home.

Unknown to both Senator Saraki and the bureau de change operator, the senator’s security detail had a plan of their own. They recruited some of their colleagues, including army Captain Hussein Ishaku Mshelia, to waylay the bureau de change operator on his way to Mr. Saraki’s home. The robbers stole the money by staging a perfect “sting operation.” The security agents who carried out the heist were dressed in DSS camouflage and strategically positioned themselves in and around Mr. Saraki's house.

When the delivery vehicle was about five minutes away from Senator Saraki's house, several heavily armed men dressed in DSS vests and military camouflage struck and rounded up the bureau de change operators conveying the money. The agents reportedly told the bureau de change operators that they were under arrest for money laundering, specifically for moving such a huge amount of cash without any evidence of official transaction. The three policemen hired by the bureau de change operators left as soon as the armed interceptors presented identity cards that showed that they were truly DSS operatives.

As soon as the police escorts left, convinced that the DSS agents were truly on official assignment, the armed agents, among them some DSS operatives attached to Mr. Saraki, told the bureau de change operators that they knew where the money was being moved to and aware that the deal was illegal.

When the main bureau de change operator telephoned Senator Saraki to report his trouble, the senator instructed him not to mention his name at all. But Mr. Saraki did not know that some of the agents who had planned and executed the interception and heist were his security agents. Our source said Mr. Saraki initially thought the security men who had caught the bureau de change operator were from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Thereafter, the DSS agents who planned the operation originally demanded N350 million in order to let the vehicle conveying the cash to move on. After much negotiation, they were paid N310 million.

Shortly after the robbery, the suspects were identified and detained at the agency’s headquarters in Abuja. Some of the suspects, confirmed to be SSS personnel attached to Senator Saraki, have undergone several interrogations. SaharaReporters learned that, as a result of the heist, Senator Saraki’s DSS detail, including his chief security officer, named Paul, and chief detail, named Abdulrasheed Ahmadu Maigari, had been reassigned to the DSS headquarters. Another set of DSS agents have been deployed to Mr. Saraki.

Mr. Saraki, who enjoys a cozy relationship with the Director General of DSS, Musa Lawal, personally contacted the DG to request the return of Paul, the senator’s erstwhile CSO. A source within the agency told SaharaReporters that, despite the senator’s request, both Mr. Paul and Mr. Maigari remained at the headquarters where they also underwent interrogation before the DSS released some names today.

Today’s press release, which was authorized by the DG of the DSS, was instructive in its omission of crucial details, including the date, time and location of the robbery. The omissions were designed to conceal Mr. Saraki’s role as the recipient of the stolen funds.

Below is the text of the statement by the DSS:



N310M ROBBERY-DSS ARRESTS CULPRITS: N66.4 MILLION RECOVERED

The Department of State Services (DSS) wishes to inform the general public that the Service has arrested two (2) out of five (5) of its Staff involved in the robbery and sharing, on 20th November, 2015, of the sum of three hundred and ten million naira (N310m) belonging to a Bureau De Change operator in Abuja. While three (3) of the DSS staff are now at large, the Military Authorities have commenced a detailed investigation of five (5) of its personnel involved in the crime.

Preliminary investigations have revealed that Abdulrasheed Ahmadu MAIGARI of the DSS, conspired with four (4) other colleagues of his namely: Solomon INUSA, Peter OKOYE, Patrick ISHAYA and George Mwatapwa IBBI, to carry out this reprehensible act. The five (5) military personnel were led by one Capt. Hussein Ishaku MSHELIA. Meanwhile, the Service has arrested MAIGARI and IBBI; and MSHELIA equally arrested by the Army authorities. Efforts are ongoing to apprehend those still at large. A total of Sixty-Six Million Four Hundred and Thirty Seven Thousand, Four Hundred and Forty-five Naira (N66,437,445.00) and Six Thousand Two Hundred Dollars ($6,200) have so far been recovered, while efforts are being made to recover the remaining amounts. It is to be noted that security agencies now act in concert, thus the joint investigation undertaken with the Police, Army and the DSS.

This action of the Service is in line with the posture of the current Administration and DSS management focus on professionalism, transparency and accountability. Those so far arrested have been suspended pending the completion of investigations. For the avoidance of doubt, the Service wants to reiterate its commitment to the basic ideals and principles as established by its forebears and will not spare anyone found to be contravening the rules and regulations or the laws of the land. We therefore encourage members of the public with useful information that could lead to the arrest of those at large to volunteer same to the Service or other security agency. The DSS also wishes to use this opportunity to assure all law abiding citizens of their safety and urge them to partner with the Service in the smooth discharge of its responsibilities.

Tony OPUIYO

Department of State Services

Abuja.

6th December, 2015

http://saharareporters.com/2015/12/06/department-state-security-robbery-scandal-agents-stole-money-meant-senate-president

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Re: DSS Agents Stole Saraki's Money - Sahara Reporters by gerald01: 9:33pm On Dec 06, 2015
front page please!
Re: DSS Agents Stole Saraki's Money - Sahara Reporters by agarawu23(m): 9:33pm On Dec 06, 2015
shocked shocked shocked
Re: DSS Agents Stole Saraki's Money - Sahara Reporters by Nobody: 9:40pm On Dec 06, 2015
I don't blame them sha...

Former NSA turned himself into CBN and was doling out millions and Billions to every Tom Di.ck and Harry undecided

Former petroleum minister stole till she had cancer

A serving Senator turned himself into a student to open and operate a foreign bank account.

Current Senate President has been stealing since his days in kwara state and is still stealing.

So why won't a bunch of hungry DSS agents also want to get in on the act undecided

At the end of the day they are all thieves.

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Re: DSS Agents Stole Saraki's Money - Sahara Reporters by Paragon311(m): 9:48pm On Dec 06, 2015
Saraki again?

Satan is seriously hugging this man I swear.....

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Re: DSS Agents Stole Saraki's Money - Sahara Reporters by likila: 9:57pm On Dec 06, 2015
Paragon311:
Saraki again?

Satan is seriously hugging this man I swear.....

apc and lies again?
apc can lie for the universe

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Re: DSS Agents Stole Saraki's Money - Sahara Reporters by edgyslim: 10:03pm On Dec 06, 2015
Saraki would soon meet his Waterloo.
He whom the Gods want to kill,they first make deaf.

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Re: DSS Agents Stole Saraki's Money - Sahara Reporters by Nobody: 10:07pm On Dec 06, 2015
Paragon311:
Saraki again?

Satan is seriously hugging this man I swear.....
Pls, dont blaspheme my God. Only Jesus hugs crooks and thieves.

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Re: DSS Agents Stole Saraki's Money - Sahara Reporters by gerald01: 10:28pm On Dec 06, 2015
sonOfLucifer:

Pls, dont blaspheme my God. Only Jesus hugs crooks and thieves.

so u are truly son of lucifer grin grin grin

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Re: DSS Agents Stole Saraki's Money - Sahara Reporters by gerald01: 10:30pm On Dec 06, 2015
adeaks:
I don't blame them sha...

Former NSA turned himself into CBN and was doling out millions and Billions to every Tom Di.ck and Harry undecided

Former petroleum minister stole till she caught cancer

Current Senate President has been stealing since his days in kwara state and is still stealing.

So why won't a bunch of hungry DSS agents also want to get in on the act undecided



i think what we really need in this country is pure revolution.we are tired of all these stealing.

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Re: DSS Agents Stole Saraki's Money - Sahara Reporters by bigboss80s(m): 4:07am On Dec 07, 2015
Aren't we all missing the point here. Saraki has actually been bribing the judges handling his case at the CCT. This is corruption happening under the nose of PMB. The DSS had better come out and give us further details. I'm sure the only reason we r hearing this is to cover the DSS DG's behind in case someone else squeals.

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Re: DSS Agents Stole Saraki's Money - Sahara Reporters by wolewolsz(m): 5:23am On Dec 07, 2015
God... In your mercy grant us peace

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Re: DSS Agents Stole Saraki's Money - Sahara Reporters by kokozain(m): 5:49am On Dec 07, 2015
This is unbelievable

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Re: DSS Agents Stole Saraki's Money - Sahara Reporters by Meriekriss: 5:56am On Dec 07, 2015
bigboss80s:
Aren't we all missing the point here. Saraki has actually been bribing the judges handling his case at the CCT. This is corruption happening under the nose of PMB. The DSS had better come out and give us further details. I'm sure the only reason we r hearing this is to cover the DSS DG's behind in case someone else squeals.

And where is the evidence that Saraki bribed any judge or intended to bribe any judge apart from the blank statement credited to SR without evidence backing it up.

Meanwhile, I thought Buhari's body odour is dealing with past corrupt thieves but it's not enough to scare DSS agents in his own administration?
Only God will continue to expose the full scale of corruption currently going on in Bubu's regime..

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Re: DSS Agents Stole Saraki's Money - Sahara Reporters by 4ward(m): 6:50am On Dec 07, 2015
gerald01:
The Department of State Security (DSS) today issued a release disclosing that some its agents took part in robbing a Bureau De Change in Abuja. Curiously, the agency’s release, which was signed by a spokesman, Tony Opuiyo, failed to provide details of the robbery, apparently in an effort to cover up the ultimate ownership of the stolen money.

However, an investigation by SaharaReporters confirmed that the robbery took place on November 20, 2015 near the home of Senate President Bukola Saraki in Abuja.

Mr. Saraki had frequently used bureau de change agents to carry out money laundering since his days as governor of Kwara State, a fact detailed in police reports of his money laundering activities.

SaharaReporters learnt that when Mr. Saraki needed some cash with which to bribe judges handling his numerous challenges to his ongoing trial at the Code of Conduct Bureau, he often called on bureau de change agents to help transport the cash, sometimes after converting it to foreign currency, which is much easier to move around.

Our reliable sources, in confirming Mr. Saraki’s part in the bizarre heist, said the DSS had yet to determine the exact amount of cash Mr. Saraki was trying to raise at the time of the robbery, but they insisted it was in billions of naira.

A source familiar with the DSS investigations said the agency’s operatives attached to the Senate President were always aware of the senator’s procurement and movement of cash. However, on this occasion, Mr. Saraki decided not to use his DSS agents to escort the cash, since he feared “all eyes were on him and on some of his details, too.” Instead, the bureau de change operator was to make his own arrangement for police officers to accompany him as he moved the cash to Mr. Saraki’s home.

Unknown to both Senator Saraki and the bureau de change operator, the senator’s security detail had a plan of their own. They recruited some of their colleagues, including army Captain Hussein Ishaku Mshelia, to waylay the bureau de change operator on his way to Mr. Saraki’s home. The robbers stole the money by staging a perfect “sting operation.” The security agents who carried out the heist were dressed in DSS camouflage and strategically positioned themselves in and around Mr. Saraki's house.

When the delivery vehicle was about five minutes away from Senator Saraki's house, several heavily armed men dressed in DSS vests and military camouflage struck and rounded up the bureau de change operators conveying the money. The agents reportedly told the bureau de change operators that they were under arrest for money laundering, specifically for moving such a huge amount of cash without any evidence of official transaction. The three policemen hired by the bureau de change operators left as soon as the armed interceptors presented identity cards that showed that they were truly DSS operatives.

As soon as the police escorts left, convinced that the DSS agents were truly on official assignment, the armed agents, among them some DSS operatives attached to Mr. Saraki, told the bureau de change operators that they knew where the money was being moved to and aware that the deal was illegal.

When the main bureau de change operator telephoned Senator Saraki to report his trouble, the senator instructed him not to mention his name at all. But Mr. Saraki did not know that some of the agents who had planned and executed the interception and heist were his security agents. Our source said Mr. Saraki initially thought the security men who had caught the bureau de change operator were from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Thereafter, the DSS agents who planned the operation originally demanded N350 million in order to let the vehicle conveying the cash to move on. After much negotiation, they were paid N310 million.

Shortly after the robbery, the suspects were identified and detained at the agency’s headquarters in Abuja. Some of the suspects, confirmed to be SSS personnel attached to Senator Saraki, have undergone several interrogations. SaharaReporters learned that, as a result of the heist, Senator Saraki’s DSS detail, including his chief security officer, named Paul, and chief detail, named Abdulrasheed Ahmadu Maigari, had been reassigned to the DSS headquarters. Another set of DSS agents have been deployed to Mr. Saraki.

Mr. Saraki, who enjoys a cozy relationship with the Director General of DSS, Musa Lawal, personally contacted the DG to request the return of Paul, the senator’s erstwhile CSO. A source within the agency told SaharaReporters that, despite the senator’s request, both Mr. Paul and Mr. Maigari remained at the headquarters where they also underwent interrogation before the DSS released some names today.

Today’s press release, which was authorized by the DG of the DSS, was instructive in its omission of crucial details, including the date, time and location of the robbery. The omissions were designed to conceal Mr. Saraki’s role as the recipient of the stolen funds.

Below is the text of the statement by the DSS:



N310M ROBBERY-DSS ARRESTS CULPRITS: N66.4 MILLION RECOVERED

The Department of State Services (DSS) wishes to inform the general public that the Service has arrested two (2) out of five (5) of its Staff involved in the robbery and sharing, on 20th November, 2015, of the sum of three hundred and ten million naira (N310m) belonging to a Bureau De Change operator in Abuja. While three (3) of the DSS staff are now at large, the Military Authorities have commenced a detailed investigation of five (5) of its personnel involved in the crime.

Preliminary investigations have revealed that Abdulrasheed Ahmadu MAIGARI of the DSS, conspired with four (4) other colleagues of his namely: Solomon INUSA, Peter OKOYE, Patrick ISHAYA and George Mwatapwa IBBI, to carry out this reprehensible act. The five (5) military personnel were led by one Capt. Hussein Ishaku MSHELIA. Meanwhile, the Service has arrested MAIGARI and IBBI; and MSHELIA equally arrested by the Army authorities. Efforts are ongoing to apprehend those still at large. A total of Sixty-Six Million Four Hundred and Thirty Seven Thousand, Four Hundred and Forty-five Naira (N66,437,445.00) and Six Thousand Two Hundred Dollars ($6,200) have so far been recovered, while efforts are being made to recover the remaining amounts. It is to be noted that security agencies now act in concert, thus the joint investigation undertaken with the Police, Army and the DSS.

This action of the Service is in line with the posture of the current Administration and DSS management focus on professionalism, transparency and accountability. Those so far arrested have been suspended pending the completion of investigations. For the avoidance of doubt, the Service wants to reiterate its commitment to the basic ideals and principles as established by its forebears and will not spare anyone found to be contravening the rules and regulations or the laws of the land. We therefore encourage members of the public with useful information that could lead to the arrest of those at large to volunteer same to the Service or other security agency. The DSS also wishes to use this opportunity to assure all law abiding citizens of their safety and urge them to partner with the Service in the smooth discharge of its responsibilities.

Tony OPUIYO

Department of State Services

Abuja.

6th December, 2015

http://saharareporters.com/2015/12/06/department-state-security-robbery-scandal-agents-stole-money-meant-senate-president
Naija hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Re: DSS Agents Stole Saraki's Money - Sahara Reporters by ckmayoca: 6:54am On Dec 07, 2015
gerald01:



i think what we really need in this country is pure revolution.we are tired of all these stealing.

Seconded!

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Re: DSS Agents Stole Saraki's Money - Sahara Reporters by roseline71: 6:56am On Dec 07, 2015
W0w
Re: DSS Agents Stole Saraki's Money - Sahara Reporters by bigboss80s(m): 7:41am On Dec 07, 2015
Lalasticlala front page pls. This is very serious!

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Re: DSS Agents Stole Saraki's Money - Sahara Reporters by giantstrides(m): 7:54am On Dec 07, 2015
Bukola saraki, the unrepentant corrupted soul.

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Re: DSS Agents Stole Saraki's Money - Sahara Reporters by Nobody: 12:28pm On Dec 07, 2015
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Re: DSS Agents Stole Saraki's Money - Sahara Reporters by Nobody: 12:28pm On Dec 07, 2015
Uhmmmm saraki

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Re: DSS Agents Stole Saraki's Money - Sahara Reporters by KpStone(m): 12:28pm On Dec 07, 2015
Re: DSS Agents Stole Saraki's Money - Sahara Reporters by Firefire(m): 12:28pm On Dec 07, 2015
All na APC affairs....

I wonder why some Nigerians still believe APC can render any meaningful CHANGE with the composition of the professional looters and career robbers as leaders.

Starting from the master strategist, BAT, to his foot soldiers Fashola, Fayemi, and the Chief in looting, Bukkola Saraki.

All this not considering the high powered looting in the northern Nigeria with Hell-Rufai leading the group.

The bitter truth is that Buhary is a toothless bull dog. Honestly, a live dog is better than a dead lion.


APC, Party of professional looters and career propagandist.

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Re: DSS Agents Stole Saraki's Money - Sahara Reporters by massinola(m): 12:28pm On Dec 07, 2015
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Re: DSS Agents Stole Saraki's Money - Sahara Reporters by Nobody: 12:29pm On Dec 07, 2015
Meriekriss:

Meanwhile, I thought Buhari's body odour is dealing with past corrupt thieves but it's not enough to scare DSS agents in his own administration?
Only God will continue to expose the full scale of corruption currently going on in Bubu's regime..

Corrupt people don't change until they are exposed.
The rate at which corruption is being exposed in this ERA is an indication that an
expected reduction will soon be achieved.
By the grace of God
embarassed

N.B
Stealing is now corruption

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Re: DSS Agents Stole Saraki's Money - Sahara Reporters by Nobody: 12:29pm On Dec 07, 2015
Saraki sef shocked

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Re: DSS Agents Stole Saraki's Money - Sahara Reporters by ILOVETOFUCK(f): 12:29pm On Dec 07, 2015
Nobody is checking names cos the criminals are not Igbos. anyways, jst to remind us that Ethnic Bigotry will lead us nowhere. Obviously, crime knows no ethnic group. God bless us all.

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Re: DSS Agents Stole Saraki's Money - Sahara Reporters by Nobody: 12:30pm On Dec 07, 2015
LAW OF KARMA! JUST THE WAY SOME POLITICIANS STEAL MONEY MEANT FOR THE PEOPLE.
Re: DSS Agents Stole Saraki's Money - Sahara Reporters by macaranta(m): 12:30pm On Dec 07, 2015
Interesting...they're just exposing themselves.

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