The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ola Olukoyede, has revealed the investigation carried out on the founder of Streams of Joy International, Pastor Jerry Eze.

According to Olukoyede, the EFCC investigated the cleric for six months over suspected money laundering before clearing him.

He said the probe was triggered by intelligence reports and petitions after the commission observed large inflows of foreign currencies into the cleric’s domiciliary account.

The EFCC boss disclosed this while delivering a speech at the Jerry Eze Foundation Business Grant Award Ceremony in Abuja.

“We work by intelligence, we work by petitions. At some point, I saw there was an account, a domiciliary account. Dollars, pounds were dropping in like raindrops, from Colombia, from America, from Sri Lanka, even from Togo.

“I said who is this man? Yes, I’ve been hearing about his name, I’ve seen his face a couple of times. I never bothered about what he was doing. I knew he was a pastor.

“So they said this one pastor of streams of joy, go and investigate him. So we went to the investigation. We combed the books,” Olukoyede stated.

He said he invited Jerry Eze for quesitoning after preliminary findings by his team but had to clear him since no wrongdoing was found in his records.

“So he came to my office. He told me what happens and all of that, and how the money came, what he does, how he has been helping people, and all of that.

“I said, you know what, I didn’t call you here to explain to me. We have already done our work. I called you here to commend you,” he stated.