Recent propaganda by rogue banker, Erastus Akingbola that he was never asked to make refunds to his former bank, InterContinental bank of Nigeria, has landed him in trouble and he is now cooling his feet in an Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) detention cell in Lagos.
Recent propaganda by rogue banker, Erastus Akingbola that he was never asked to make refunds to his former bank, InterContinental bank of Nigeria, has landed him in trouble and he is now cooling his feet in an Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) detention cell in Lagos.
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This follows SaharaReporters’s foiling of his recent attempt to get out of his criminal activities by offering to refund a paltry £9 million to end all forms of prosecution by the EFCC through the office of the attorney general and minister of justice of Nigeria. His accomplice, Nigeria’s Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke, is in a quandary of his own over how to help Akingbola, who had promised to pay him £1.5 million in bribe money.
After making the deal, AGF Bello Adokie wrote a letter to the EFCC asking the agency to accept the settlement so that he could end Mr. Akingbola's
prosecution. The EFCC refused and Mr. Akingbola sweetened the pot by offering an additional £5 million. To his surprise, he was arrested two days ago along with his wife.
The EFCC could not charge him to court today as planned because federal judges in Nigeria involved in his case are attending a conference in South Africa.
EFCC sources told SaharaReporters today that the agency is determined to jail the rogue banker, who is also a senior pastor of the Lagos-based Redeemed Christian Church of God, for the monumental graft committed by him at InterContinental Bank.
A United Kingdom High Court had ordered the rogue banker to return £9 million to InterContinental bank while ordering him to deposit £68 million with the court pending the time he could produce evidence of his ownership of the funds.
The monies were frozen by the UK court after it was discovered that Mr.
Akingbola had looted the bank using phony shell companies in Nigeria, Guernsey and the UK. He laundered the funds, which were derived from shady transactions in the bank, to purchase properties in the UK for himself and family members.
No information is available at this time concerning why his wife was arrested along with her husband, or whether they are sharing the same cell.
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