ICPC probes billion-naira salary fraud syndicate in federal civil service

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) is investigating what is now being unraveled as a massive fraud syndicate that specialises in compromising the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) and inflating salaries of collaborators who work in the federal government’s Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).

The fraud has possibly gone on for years and could run into billions of naira of losses to the government, according to some concerned civil servants who are also familiar with the development.