NDLEA QUESTIONS OBI CUBANA OVER LINK TO ILLEGAL DRUG BUSINESS

Obi Cubana 

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Thursday question a popular socialite and the Chief Executive Officer of Cubana Group, Obi Iyiegbu, popularly known as Obi Cubana, for his alleged connection to illegal narcotic business, report the Punch. 

It was gathered that Cubana was question for over five hours by the Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at it Abuja Headquarters before socialite was granted bail and asked to return at a later date. 

Suspicious payments was allegedly reported to be made to the account of popular socialite, Obi Cubana by three different convicted drug dealers from Malaysia, Nigeria and India, this pront the Operatives of NDLEA and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to have widened the investigations into Cubana and his business network based on the premise that he may be involved in the drug business.

“We have been able to establish three of such payments. One of the persons that paid money into his account was convicted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; another one that was convicted in New Delhi, India; also paid money into his account while a third person that was arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos and convicted in 2017, also paid money into Cubana’s account,” said a source.

The socialite was released on bail to enable him get some documents as required by Drug Law Enforcement Agency.