EFCC quizzes former FIRS Chairman Fowler
Quizzed over the N100n tax evasion allegations
A former Executive Chairman of Nigeria’s Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr Tunde Fowler
A former Chairman of Federal Inland Revenue Services, Babatunde Fowler is undergoing interrogation at the Lagos office of the anti-graft agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The spokesperson of the commission, Wilson Uwujaren confirmed this to Daily Trust in a telephone interview.
“Yes, he is presently in our Lagos office answering some questions. The commission invited him and he honoured the invitation,” Uwujaren said.
It was gathered that Fowler was being quizzed over the N100 billion tax evasion allegations levelled against a tax firm, Alpha Beta Consulting.
Fowler was sacked by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 after a query for “worsening tax revenues since 2015.”
He was also accused of a “lavish lifestyle, bankrolling extravagant parties and concerts in Lagos, poor corporate governance structures at the FIRS, poor audits at the FIRS, high handedness in office, diversion of funds, brazen corruption and awarding contracts to stooges and cronies.”
Earlier nine senior officials of the agency were detained by the EFCC over alleged multi-billion-naira fraud in 2019.