Chris Mishela, a lawyer with the commission, disclosed this in Benin during a training for journalists on effective reporting of economic and financial crimes.
Mishela said one of the objectives of the training was to keep journalists abreast of the framework of new anti-money laundering Act 2022 and the role they were expected to play.
“As it is, I am talking about Abuja, you see so many estates coming all over Abuja and more.
“The sources of these funds are unlawful; the funds are illegally gotten either from government or from international crime that is used to launder through estate business.
“So, EFCC is actually working to look into that dimension and the new money laundering Act has provided an opening for the government to look into the aspect of real estate as we have seen under the Act.
“Real estate is one of the designated and non-designated professions that is also under our obligation, under the establishment to do a full disclosure.
“It is an investigation that is going on; not that we have identified any specific entity to these proceeds of crime, but we are working to unravel what those areas are,” he said.
The EFCC official, who spelt out the roles and responsibilities that individuals and corporate organisations were expected to play under the new Act, said “it’s now a crime to make cash or receive cash
