The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission has arrested two top managers of a commercial bank for assisting the
former Chairman of Pension Reform Task Team, PRTT, Abdulrasheed Maina, to
launder stolen pension funds.
Maina is on the run after the EFCC filed charges
against him for stealing billions of pension funds through a phony biometric
exercise alongside former Head of Service of the Federation, Steve Oronsaye.
Sources at the EFCC disclosed that the
two bankers, Danjuma Zubairu, group head, private banking and Abubarkar Gwambe,
an account officer, in the Abuja Central Business District business unit of the
bank, were arrested on Thursday following fresh evidence that they are managing
proxy accounts for the fugitive.
The accounts, which have over time
witnessed massive inflow of slush funds include two corporate and three
individual accounts. The first individual account opened in the name of Abdullahi
Faizer, had a turnover of N1.5billion while the other operated in the name of
Nafisatu Aliyu recorded a turnover of over N100,000.
source:Vangaurd
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