Owasanoye said N418.8m and $1.5m in Domiciliary Accounts were recovered between January to March 2021.
He said five plots of land, 13 businesses, 29 buildings, one vehicle and five farms were also seized within the same period.
Of these items, Owasanoye said 12 were on seizure, one on interim forfeiture; while 40 on final forfeiture.
The ICPC boss said his agency secured four convictions in the first quarter of 2021, and 26 in 2020. Also, 73 cases were filed in 2020 while only 11 cases filed between January and March 2021, he added.
He also said the sum of N147bn was restrained by the Office of Accountant General of the Federation from personnel, overhead and capital costs on the basis of instruction issued in 2019 on the account of ICPC personnel cost review of MDAs.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has denied the allegation by one of its members, Kassim Afegbua, that it realised about N10 billion from the sale of forms in 2019.
Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, who is the National Publicity Secretary of the party, described the claim as spurious and irresponsible.
Afegbua had petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), seeking the probe of the party’s leadership.
But Ologbondiyan stated there was no truth in the allegation, stressing that the party generated N4.6 billion and raised a budget for its expenditure, in line with all known financial regulations of the PDP.
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The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has said over N1.1 billion was forfeited to the Federal Government between January and March 2021.
The Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, stated this while briefing the Senate Committee on Anti-Corruption and Financial Crimes Committee led by Senator Suleiman Kwari while on oversight visit to the ICPC headquarters last week Thursday.
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Owasanoye said N418.8m and $1.5m in domiciliary accounts were forfeited to the Federal Government in the first quarter of this year.
He said the anti-graft agency also seized five plots of land, 13 businesses, 29 buildings, One vehicle and five farms during the period under review.
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