General Overseer of Church nabbed by EFCC for fraud

Kelechi Anozie, The founder of Praying City Church located in Owerri, Imo State, has been nabbed by Operatives of the Enugu Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

He was said to be a suspect on the wanted list of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and was nabbed on March 10, 2022, following credible intelligence linking him to alleged conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering.

In a statement by the EFCC spokesman,Wilson Uwujaren, on Thursday, it stated that,

“Anozie and four other suspects: Valentine Iro, Ekene Ekechukwu (alias Ogedi Power), Bright Azubuike (alias Bright Bauer Azubuike) and  Ifeanyi Junior,  are alleged to have defrauded one F.F who lives in Illinois,  United States,  the sum of $135,800 and another $47,000.”

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is a Nigerian law enforcement agency that investigates financial crimes such as advance fee fraud (419 fraud) and money laundering.