Alleged $6.2m Fraud: Place Emefiele’s Accomplices On Watch-list – FG Tells Interpol
The Federal Government has asked Interpol to place on its watchlist for arrest three Nigerians who connived with former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele and siphoned $6.6 million from the vault of the apex bank by forging the signature of former President Muhammadu Buhari.
The request to the Interpol was made by the Office of the Special Investigator appointed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to investigate the CBN, related entities and other key government business entitles.
The three suspects are Adamu Abubakar, Imam Abubakar, and Odoh Eric Ocheme alleged to have forged the signature of ex-President Buhari and documents presumed to have been written by Boss Mustapha, the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF).
The forged documents include that of the Presidency, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation Identity Card in the name of Jibril Abubakar, a letter dated 23 January, 2023 purportedly endorsed by Buhari to the the SGF, Boss Mustapha and another letter dated 26 January, 2023 purportedly written by Boss Mustapha to Mr. Godwin Emefiele, the then Governor of the CBN.
Other documents included, a Central Bank of Nigeria Internal Memo dated 31 January, 2023 purportedly written by the Director, Banking Services Department to the Governor, another Central Bank of Nigeria Internal Memo dated 7th February, 2023 purportedly written by the Director, Banking Services Department to the Branch Controller, Abuja, Branch, with the intent that the CBN, Abuja branch may in the believe that the documents were genuine be induced to pay the sum of six million, two hundred and thirty thousand United States Dollars ($6,230,000.00)
