THE
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has invited the Managing
Director of Sky Bank and his Chief Compliance Officer over the bank’s
deliberate refusal to move N6.3 billion lodged in its two separate accounts to
the Treasury Single Account (TSA).
It will be recalled that the Federal
Government mandated the use of its TSA for government-related accounts and
funds.
EFCC sources disclosed that the invitation followed
the discovery of funds belonging the defunct Presidential Implementation
Committee on the Alienation of the Federal Government Landed Property, which
was overlooked by the bank in the TSA compliance arrangement.
These funds have been reportedly dormant since 2011,
according to sources involved in the investigation.
“There is strong suspicion that the funds were
covertly hidden from the government as only the bank and members of the
committee that had long wounded up operation are aware of its existence”, the
source said.
The Committee, which had B.B. Awojide as Secretary,
operated from Room 4A, (3rd floor) Federal Secretariat, Phase1. Both accounts have already been blocked by the EFCC,
while investigations continue.
In other developments, the Commission has also
recovered $2.33million USD from one of the suspects in the arms procurement
contract scandal in the Office of the National Security Adviser, ONSA. SAHARA REPORTER
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