The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it has launched an investigation, in collaboration with the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) and other international partners, into the alleged fraud perpetrated by a digital investment platform, CryptoBank Exchange (CBEX).
CBEX, which crashed on Monday, reportedly led to the loss of ₦1.3 trillion belonging to Nigerian investors, even as several videos online showed some Nigerians raising the alarm over the loss of their funds to the scheme.
Making an appearance on Wednesday’s edition of Channels Television’s breakfast programme, The Morning Brief, the EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, said the agency had received calls from different quarters over the incident and was already tracking the digital trading platform.
“Concerning this CBEX thing, we’re on it; it’s not that we didn’t know, and you know we’ve been alerting Nigerians about ways and means to separate themselves from this type of shenanigans. So, before the calls came, we were working; while the calls were coming, we were working, and even after the calls, we’re still working.
“I can assure you that all of the profiling we need to do, contacts that we need to make, and some collaborative engagement that we need to make, we’re already doing that. We’re in contact with Interpol. We’re in contact with our development partners.”
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