Only Invited For Questioning Over Alleged Fraud
Following recent reports published by a national daily,
The Punch Newspapers that the anti-graft body, Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC, has detained a former Chairman of Skye Bank Plc., (now
Polaris Bank,) Mr. Tunde Ayeni, for alleged fraud, it has been reliably
discovered that Tunde Ayeni was only invited for questioning at the Abuja
office of the commission hours ago.
Confirming the development, the acting
spokesman for the EFCC, Mr. Tony Orilade, said Ayeni was only being grilled by
detectives over some issues related to fraud and embezzlement allegedly
committed by Ayeni when he was Chairman of the bank few years ago.
”I can confirm that he is in our custody on an
invitation, for questioning and interrogation. More information will be
released tomorrow,” he said. It would be recalled that the anti-graft agency
had entered into an agreement with the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria,
AMCON, to check out some banks and its officials, who facilitated the huge
non-performing loans in AMCON’s portfolio.
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