The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has detained A former Chairman of Skye Bank Plc (Now Polaris Bank), Tunde Ayeni, is currently being detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC for fraud.<\/p>\n
The EFCC has also filed charges against the former Skye Bank boss before a Federal High Court in Maitama where he would be arraigned for fraud running into billions of naira.<\/p>\n
Particularly, the EFCC will charge him for mismanaging the funds of the bank which almost led to its collapse.<\/p>\n
The anti-graft agency had entered into an agreement with the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON to check out some banks and its officials who facilitated the huge non-performing loans in AMCON\u2019s portfolio.<\/p>\n
The Managing Director of AMCON, Ahmed Kuru, had said the decision was for both agencies to consolidate on the gains in the areas of investigating, prosecuting and compelling all obligors of AMCON to recover N906bn from debtors.<\/p>\n
Similarly, the Managing Director and Chief Executive of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC, Umaru Ibrahim, had disclosed recently that Ayeni and former Managing Director, Timothy Oguntayo, are being investigated for their roles in the bank.<\/p>\n
The NDIC boss said investigations have already commenced and law agencies will do their work once the investigations have been concluded.<\/p>\n
The Central Bank of Nigeria, NDIC and AMCON had revoked the operating licence of Skye Bank following its financial instability, thus necessitating the regulators to rename it Polaris Bank and a capital injection of about $2bn.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey (former directors of defunct Skye Bank) are being investigated and I can assure that when the time comes, the necessary relevant security and law enforcement agencies will do their work\u201d, he had said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has detained A former Chairman of Skye Bank Plc (Now Polaris Bank), Tunde Ayeni, is currently being detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC for fraud. The EFCC has also filed charges against the former Skye Bank boss before a Federal High Court in Maitama where he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":95203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,2],"tags":[45,101,17,7805,4429,17223],"yoast_head":"\n