UNDER THE FORMER CBN GOVERNOR – WHAT THE CBN INVESTIGATOR FOUND

UNDER THE FORMER CBN GOVERNOR – WHAT THE CBN INVESTIGATOR FOUND

— Unauthorized funded 593 Bank accounts located in the UK, US, and China

— Fraudulent cash withdrawal of $6.23 million from CBN vault under a purported approval of the president to pay foreign election observers

— Gross financial misconduct by Ex CBN Governor and at least 13 other individuals, including his Deputy Governors

— £543.4 million kept in fixed deposit by Mr. Emefiele

— Manipulation of the Naira exchange rate and perpetration of fraud in the e-Naira project of the CBN

— The Naira Redesign was neither recommended by the Board of the CBN nor approved by the then President

— The CBN printed the new N200, N500, N1,000 notes at a total cost of N61.5 billion out of which N31.8 billion has been paid to the Contractor

— The sum of N1.73 billion was spent on questionable legal fees on 19 cases that are directly traceable to the Naira Redesign and reconfiguration agenda

— £205,000 was paid to a UK Firm for Naira Redesign effort – positioning of watermark, presence of QR codes, different numbering style, and other complex security features

— Fraudulent use of Ways & Means to the tune of N26.627 trillion

— Fraudulent intervention programmes

— Fraudulent expenditures on COVID-19

— Misrepresentation of presidential approval on the NESI Stabilization Strategy Ltd.

— Padding of former president Buhari’s approval with N198.96 billion – approximating N801.04 billion to N1 trillion

— No approvals are received from the former president and yet N500 billion was taken and debited to Ways & Means

— Former CBN Governor and 4 Deputies connived to steal outrightly in order to balance the books of the CBN

— No approval for the breakdown of N22.72 trillion presented to the 9th National Assembly to illegally securitize the “Ways & Means” financing