ITALIAN COMMITS SUICIDE IN EFCC CUSTODY

 The Economic and Financial Crime Commission announced the death of Mr Zanin who was arrested for fraudulently obtaining the sum of $111,000 from Gladwaters Nigeria Limited,he allegedly obtained the money from the company, under the guise of selling used Dredger Italgraghe SGT 200 to them, to execute some dredging contract in the Niger Delta.


The suspect sent them a forged Bill of Laden but their long wait for the ship, MSC Trinidad to berth was futile as the ship indicated had ceased to exist long before they ever met the deceased three years ago.



He was found motionless  in the bathroom of the Commission’s detention facility in Abuja at about 4.50 am on June 19, 2012.He committed suicide using his bed sheet.


Mr Zanin took his own life a day to his scheduled arraignment. He was supposed to be arraigned before the Federal High Court (5) in Abuja on Wednesday, June 20, 2012.


All effort by the duty officers and a team of EFCC medical personnel led by Dr. Gideon Osi of the Commission’s Medical Unit to revive him with cardiopulmonary resuscitation proved futile and he was subsequently certified dead at about 5.45 am.

The deceased was arrested by Officers of the Nigerian Immigration Service following a complaint by one Ahamefula Chibuzor Ewuzie that he fraudulently obtained the sum of $111,000 from Gladwaters Nigeria Limited.

Mr Zanin was transferred to the EFCC on 30th May, 2012 for further investigation and his arrest was officially communicated to the Italian Embassy on 31st May, 2012.

According to the EFCC, Mr Zanin was granted provisional bail on the 31^st of May, “but he could not get a surety to take him on bail.