According to a report by Expdonaloaded blog, president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, has reportedly approved plans to have special courts for hearing tax evasion and corruption cases.
The
courts will be set up in FCT and will deal with the aforementioned
cases involving companies, individuals and government officials.
Chairman of the Anti-Money Laundering and Cyber Security Coalition at the National Assembly, Senator Aloysius Etok, reportedly disclosed the news yesterday.
“We
are confident that these courts will give accelerated hearing to tax
evasion cases and other cases bothering on corruption,” he said.
Etok
expressed optimism that the courts, when established, will take off the
burden of such cases from the regular courts and give them accelerated
hearing. He said that members of the House of Representatives and
coalition of senators have already gotten approval from the
president-elect to set up the courts.
He also revealed that the National Assembly is currently probing about 115 tax offenders.
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