Controversial billionaire and business mogul, Jimoh Ibrahim has been arrested over a monumental alleged tax fraud that runs into about N6.8bn. He was picked up on Monday afternoon by operatives of the Special Enforcement Unit of the Federal Inland Revenue Service and placed in detention.
“We are investigating a case where Chief Jimoh Ibrahim, defrauded the federal government to the tune of N6.8 billion. He is in our custody, we intend to take a statement from the suspect under caution.”
A source in the Service told Sahara Reporters that Jimoh Ibrahim have been evading agents of the unit for some time but disclosed that they eventually caught up with him in his hotel room in NICON Luxury Hotel where he was arrested this afternoon in Abuja.
Jimoh Ibrahim is known to have high political connections with top men in the PDP and Presidency
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