The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has recovered an additional N900 million from the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).
In a statement on Saturday, EFCC spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujaren said that the sum was part of the money which some deposit money banks fraudulently withheld since 2015 and refused to remit into the Treasury Single Account for NHIS.
According to him, the recovered sum was released to NHIS on 8 February.
He noted that the commission had on 10 February 2022 released to the NHIS, N1.5 billion recovered from the banks.
The commission had also on 5 August 2022 released N1.4 billion to the scheme.
On 29 July 2021, the Executive Secretary of NHIS, Prof. Muhammad Nasir Sambo had praised EFCC for assisting NHIS in the recovery of funds trapped in commercial banks.
