The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said it has recovered 55 designer wristwatches, 37 gold jewellery, weighing 1,907.9g and another 15 pieces of fashion jewellery from Abdullahi Mukhtar, a former national security adviser (NSA), and his wife, Binta.
Mukhtar was NSA between 2006 and 2010.
The commission said the jewellery were found in a fireproof safe hidden in a house belonging to one Akka Danagundi, a brother-in-law to the ex-NSA.
Documents of 50 property located in Kano, Kaduna and Abuja were also allegedly found.
Below are pictures of the operation released by the EFCC:
