Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Farida Waziri, has said she is working to pattern the anti-graft agency after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)and Scotland Yard.

Waziri told news men in Abuja recently that it is the desire of the management of the commission to raise operations to meet internationally prescribed standards.

She said already, she is collaborating with the police in Britain and France to achieve the objective.

The EFCC boss said while in France, she was able to get some strategies which she is hopeful will work in Nigeria.

According to her, "The French have built a lot on prevention of corruption and it is working for them. We brought back some strategies from them and we will turn them around and use them to suit the Nigerian situation."

Waziri, who disclosed that the move is to enhance the commission's prevention stance, lamented that the economic crimes cost the country a great deal of resources.

"Economic crimes cost a lot. It is worse when you have to travel to recover money stolen and stashed abroad by corrupt people.

"Even when the money is recovered, there are court cases and you have to get the services of lawyers out there, pay them and all that.

"Some times, the money recovered is not worth the trouble when it is finally repatriated to the country," she said.