By EMMAN OVUAKPORIE, ABUJA

Operators of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, {EFCC} Friday, raided the premises of Market Magazine in Abuja an exercise it said was based on a search warrant obtained over a case of fraud and forgery of government documents being investigated by it.

The Commission said its operatives were detailed to execute the search warrant on the magazine’s office at Mississipi Street , Maitama, Abuja following an intelligence report that companies numbering over 20 operating from the same premises were being used to defraud government agencies.

Three of the listed companies were said to have been used to defraud a federal government agency of over N66 million in January this year. During the search, computers and documents were retrieved for forensic analysis and further investigations while some officials of the companies were also picked for interrogation.

The commission said the raid “has nothing to do with gagging of the press as being insinuated.