Oficials of Skye
Bank Plc have informed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of
newly discovered accounts owned by Mrs. Patience Jonathan, wife of former
President Goodluck Jonathan. The accounts are said to have an aggregate
balance of $40million.
Last month,
the EFCC froze Mrs. Jonathan's $30.1million in various accounts domiciled in
the same bank. Sources at the bank told SaharaReporters that the latest
discoveries were brought to EFCC's attention by Skye Bank officials angered by
the limp explanations on how she came about such a huge sum in the multiple
domiciliary accounts earlier frozen by the EFCC.
The newly
discovered accounts were said to have been opened by Mrs. Jonathan, using fake
names, and abetted by crooked bank officials.
The EFCC,
SaharaReporters learnt, has obtained a court order to freeze the
accounts. Since the discovery of the bank accounts, Mrs. Jonathan has
taken desperate measures to retrieve the illegal loot from EFCC's grip, with
the most recent being the hiring a lawyer, Barrister Osuagwu Ugochukwu, to
write to the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) requesting it to confirm if Mrs.
Jonathan and her husband declared the monies after leaving the Presidency in
2015.
Osuagwu had
employed the same trick in the case of the Chief of Army Staff, General
Tukur Yusuf Buratai, whom the CCB said declared the $1.5million properties
acquired in Dubai, apparently using Nigerian Army
funds.
However, a letter recently
obtained by SaharaReporters shows that the CCB never screened General Buratai.
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