Steve Oronsaye, the former head of service of the federation is expected to return to the EFCC office today in what seems like a possible arraignment.
Oronsaye was first arrested and detained by EFCC operatives on Wednesday but was later released in the evening. He reported on Thursday and was asked to go home in the evening with the invitation to return today.
Vanguard reports that there is a strong likelihood that Oronsaye will be arraigned before the Federal High Court in Abuja. A top official of the anti-graft agency said:
“Yes, Mr. Oronsaye is with our operatives preparatory to his arraignment. He was allowed to go yesterday after spending a long time and making useful statement to us. He was ordered to return to our investigators today and he reported around 10a.m. today (yesterday)”
“Oronsaye is also being interrogated on fresh allegations of monumental fraud and embezzlement of funds in the running of a Presidential Standing Committee on Financial Action Taskforce, which he chairs.
The committee is a policy advisory body to the President on the implementation of the AML/CFT. Oronsaye allegedly used it as a conduit to siphon and launder money.
“This fresh lead is triggered by allegations by some members of the committee who claim that Oronsaye operated an illegal account in a first generation bank in the committee’s name without the knowledge of the members through which he has laundered hundreds of millions of naira.”
A 169-page report by the office of the auditor general of the federation claimed that during Oronsaye’s tenure as head of service of the federation, he mismanaged over N123 billion.
The report released in 2014 found him guilty of allegedly presiding over the looting of the nation’s resources.
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