Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ambassador
Ayodele Oke and his wife, Folasade, wanted after they failed to answer for
fraud charges filed against them.
Justice Chukwujeku Aneke of a Federal High Court Lagos, had on February 7,
2019 issued an arrest warrant on them, consequent upon an oral application
by counsel for the EFCC, Rotimi Oyedepo.
Oke and his wife are wanted in connection with the $43,449,947, £27,800
and N23,218,000 cash recovered by the EFCC from an apartment at Osborne
Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, in April 2017.
They are facing a four-count charge bordering on money laundering offence
to the tune of N13 billion.
One of the counts reads: “That you, Amb. Ayodele Oke and Mrs. Folasade
Ayodele Oke between 25th day of August 2015 and 2nd day of September 2015
in Lagos, with in the jurisdiction of this court directly converted
$160,777,136.85 property of the Federal Government of Nigeria to your own
use which sum you reasonably ought to have known formed part of proceeds
of an unlawful act to wit: criminal breach of trust and you thereby
committed an offence contrary to Section 15 (2) (d) of the Money
Laundering (Prohibition) (Amendment) Act 2012 and punishable under Section
15(3) of the same Act”.