Hon Nse Ntuen Chairman, Essien Udim LGA reportedly Arrested in USA over Money Laundering

Hon Nse Ntuen Chairman, Essien Udim LGA reportedly Arrested in USA over Money Laundering The Maryland State Police Department, USA on Sunday morning confirmed the arrest of the Executive Chairman of Essien Udim Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Nse Ntuen, for smuggling $82,000 into the United States without declaring it with the Customs officials both in Nigeria and the US. Nse Ntuen, who is also the Chairman of the Akwa Ibom State Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), was on Friday arrested by operatives of the Maryland State Police Department at the BWI International Airport, Baltimore. It was reportedly gathered that Hon. Nse Ntuen accepted that he truly smuggled the money into the USA with the aim to use it as donations at the just-concluded Annual International Convention of the Akwa Ibom Indigenes in the United States and Canada which was held at the Marriot Hotel in Washington, DC. The suspect was later made to write and sign a statement where he accepted that he brought in items which he failed to declared to both the Nigrian and United States Custom agencies.