The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has arrested a former Managing Director of Fidelity Bank Plc, Nnamdi Okonkwo, over an additional $72,870,000 million found in the coffers of the bank, allegedly linked to former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Dieziani Alison-Madueke.
This was contained in a statement issued by the EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren on Wednesday in Abuja.
Recall that Okonkwo, who is currently the Chairman of First Bank Holding, alongside others, were earlier interrogated over the sums of $153 million and $115 million by EFCC investigators.
The statement read, “Okonkwo, who is currently the Chairman of First Bank Holding, alongside others, had earlier been grilled over a sum of $153 million and $115 million by the Commission.
“While all the $153 million were recovered by the EFCC, the cases involving $115 million, as it relates with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, bribery matter, are in various courts.
“Okonkwo and Charles Onyedibe are currently being detained by the EFCC over the whereabouts of the new $72.8m.”
Alison-Madueke, who is at the centre of the ongoing investigations has since left the country shortly after leaving office in 2015.
The Federal Government seized and forfeited various sums of money and other assets, including jewelry and houses linked to her .
However efforts by the EFCC to extradite her from the United Kingdom, where she is believed to have fled to, to face trial back home have proved abortive.
