The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has invited the Managing Director of Skye Bank Plc, Mr. Timothy Oguntayo, and the Chief Compliance Officer over the bank’s refusal to move N6.3bn lodged in two separate accounts with the bank, to the Treasury Single Account.
According to the detectives at the commission, the inaction of the bank is at variance with the directive of the Federal Government on funds in banks.
An impeccable source at the anti-graft agency told out correspondent on Thursday that the invitation followed the sudden discovery that the funds belonging to the defunct Presidential Implementation Committee on the Alienation of the Federal Government Landed Property, was overlooked by the bank in the TSA compliance arrangement despite the account being dormant since 2011.
The source said, “There is a strong suspicion that the funds were covertly hidden from the government as only the bank and the members of the committee that had long wounded up operation are aware of its existence.
“Both accounts have already been blocked by the EFCC, while investigations continue.”
Meanwhile, the commission said it has recovered $2.33m from one of the suspects in the arms procurement contract scandal in the Office of the National Security Adviser.
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