The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) has declared a former Director General of the National
Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, and his wife, Folasade, wanted after
they failed to answer for fraud charges filed against them.
Justice Chukwujeku Aneke of a
Federal High Court Lagos had on February 7, 2019, issued an arrest warrant on
them, consequent upon an oral application by counsel for the EFCC, Rotimi
Oyedepo.
Mr Oke and his wife are wanted in
connection with the $43,449,947, £27,800 and N23,218,000 cash recovered by the
EFCC from an apartment at Osborne Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, in April 2017.
They are facing a four-count
charge bordering on money laundering offence to the tune of N13 billion.
One of the counts reads: “That
you, Amb. Ayodele Oke and Mrs. Folasade Ayodele Oke between 25th day of August
2015 and 2nd day of September 2015 in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this
court directly converted $160,777,136.85 property of the Federal Government of
Nigeria to your own use which sum you reasonably ought to have known formed
part of proceeds of an unlawful act to wit: criminal breach of trust and you
thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 15 (2) (d) of the Money
Laundering (Prohibition) (Amendment) Act 2012 and punishable under Section
15(3) of the same Act”.
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