{"id":43149,"date":"2015-10-25T14:03:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T13:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=43149"},"modified":"2015-10-25T14:03:18","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T13:03:18","slug":"efcc-traces-mainas-n2-8b-pension-loot-to-fidelity-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/efcc-traces-mainas-n2-8b-pension-loot-to-fidelity-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"EFCC Traces Maina\u2019s N2.8b Pension Loot To Fidelity Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1445777827061_2001\" class=\"base-card-body\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1445777827061_1667\" class=\"msg-body inner  undoreset\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1445777827061_1999\" class=\"email-wrapped\">\n<div id=\"yiv5706293292\">\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1445777827061_2183\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two top managers of Fidelity Bank Plc have been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for allegedly assisting a former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, to launder stolen pension funds.<br \/>\nThe indicted Fidelity Bank Plc top managers are the Group Head of Private Banking, Danjuma Zubairu, and an account officer, Abubakar Gwambe.<br \/>\nMaina has been declared wanted by the EFCC as he disappeared after the EFCC filed charges against him for stealing billions of pension funds through a phoney biometric exercise.<br \/>\nHe was alleged to have committed the crime alongside a former Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Steve Oronsaye.<br \/>\nZubairu and Gwambe, who work in the Abuja Central Business District Business Unit of Fidelity Bank, were arrested on Thursday by the EFCC following fresh evidence that they are managing proxy accounts for Maina.<br \/>\nThe accounts, said to have over time witnessed massive inflow of slush funds, include two corporate and three individual accounts.<br \/>\nThe first individual account, opened in the name of Abdullahi Faizer, had a turnover of N1.5 billion, while the other operated in the name of Nafisatu Aliyu, recorded a turnover of over N100 million.<br \/>\nThe corporate accounts of Cluster Logistics had a turnover of N500 million and $400,000.<br \/>\nDrew Investment and Construction and Kongolo Dynamics Cleaning Limited recorded turnovers of N54 million and N509 million respectively.<br \/>\nAll five accounts have different opening packages.<br \/>\nFour of the accounts were allegedly opened by one Khalid Aliyu, a relation of Maina, who was an employee of Fidelity Bank Plc.<br \/>\nThe said Khalil is currently at large.<br \/>\nBut investigation established that Maina is the one operating the accounts.<br \/>\nThere was said to have been established evidence of telephone text messages and email communication between Maina and the bank officials.<br \/>\nThe bulk of the monies, it was gathered, had been moved through some Bureau de Change operators, who convert them into dollars and then transfer to Maina in his hideout, believed to be the United Arab Emirates.<br \/>\n-EAGLE ONLINE<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"base-card-clear\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two top managers of Fidelity Bank Plc have been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for allegedly assisting a former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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