The Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission has detained a former Chairman of Skye Bank Plc
(Now Polaris Bank), Mr. Tunde Ayeni, for fraud, Owojela's Blog can exclusively
report.
The EFCC has
also filed charges against the former Skye Bank boss before a Federal High
Court in Maitama.
Ayeni, it
was learnt, would be arraigned for fraud running into billions of naira.
Particularly,
the EFCC will charge him for mismanaging the funds of the bank which almost led
to its collapse.
Confirming
the arrest, the acting Spokesman for the EFCC, Mr. Tony Orilade, said Ayeni was
grilled by detectives.
“I can
confirm that he is in our custody. More information will be released tomorrow,”
he said.
The
anti-graft agency had entered into an agreement with the Asset Management
Corporation of Nigeria to check out some banks and its officials who
facilitated the huge non-performing loans in AMCON’s portfolio.
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.
Similarly,
the Managing Director and Chief Executive of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance
Corporation, Alhaji Umaru Ibrahim, had disclosed recently that Ayeni and former
Managing Director, Timothy Oguntayo, are being investigated for their roles in
the bank.
The NDIC
boss said investigations have already commenced and law agencies will do their
work once the investigations have been concluded.
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.
“They
(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”, he had said.
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