Following
Skye Bank's alleged failure to adhere to the government's directive on the
movement of funds to TSA in money deposit banks, the EFCC has invited
the Managing Director of the bank.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has invited the
Managing Director of Skye Bank, Timothy Oguntayo, over the bank’s
alleged refusal to remit N6.3 billion to government’s Treasury Single
Account.
The anti-graft body also invited the bank’s chief compliance
officer following the bank’s alleged failure to adhere to government’s
directive on the movement of funds to TSA in money deposit banks.
Sources at the EFCC told Premium Times that the two top executive
officers were invited when it was found that government funds were still
being concealed in two separate accounts in the bank.
The money belonged to the defunct Presidential Implementation
Committee on the Alienation of the Federal Government Landed Property.
The authorities of the bank were said to have overlooked the huge
deposits in its TSA compliance arrangement despite the accounts being
dormant since 2011.
“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,” a source said.
The committee which had B.B. Awojide as Secretary, operated from Room 4A, on the third floor of the Federal Secretariat, Phase1.
Both accounts have already been blocked by the EFCC, while investigations continue.
Meanwhile, the source said the commission also recovered
$2.33million from one of the suspects in the arms procurement contract
scandal in the Office of the National Security Adviser.
