EFCC warns tourism operators

Tourism operators in the South-East have been cautioned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against their high rate of non-compliance with extant anti-money laundering regulations for Designated Non-Financial Institutions.

While addressing executive members of Society of Tourism Proprietors of Nigeria (STPN), Enugu State Chapter,  who were at the Commission’s Enugu office at the instance of the Special Control Unit Against Money Laundering (SCUML), Ibrahim Bappa, the Enugu Zonal Head of the Commission, issued the warning in Enugu.

“We have noted with dismay the non-compliant and indifferent attitude of some of you with regards to your obligations to stem the incidences of money laundering and terrorist financing in the South-east which has been the least compliant zone in this regard,” he said.