{"id":49196,"date":"2016-05-11T22:52:21","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T21:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=49196"},"modified":"2016-05-13T06:09:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T05:09:21","slug":"fidelity-banks-115m-fraud-efcc-grills-ex-gov-imoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fidelity-banks-115m-fraud-efcc-grills-ex-gov-imoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Fidelity Bank&#8217;s $115m Fraud: EFCC Grills Ex-Gov Imoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u00a0&#8230;Detains Ex-Edo Dep Gov, SSG<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Operatives of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today\u00a0quizzed a former\u00a0governor of Cross Rivers\u00a0State, Senator Liyel Imoke, for his alleged involvement in the N500million collected by the Cross Rivers State\u2019s chairman of the People\u2019s Democratic Party, Mr. Ntufam John Okon.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The N500m was part of the $115m allegedly lodged in Fidelity Bank Plc, in controversial circumstances, during the 2015 electioneering campaign period by the immediate past Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Allison- Madueke.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also, a former Deputy Governor of Edo State, Chief Lucky Imasuen, and a former Secretary to the State Government of Edo State, Pastor Osagie Ize Iyamu, have been interrogated\u00a0 by operatives of the EFCC for collecting the sum of N700million( Seven Hundred Million Naira) from the $115million fraud.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The money\u00a0was reportedly collected from\u00a0Fidelity Bank Plc,\u00a0Mission Road, Benin City branch,\u00a0 on March, 2015.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iyamu, a People&#8217;s Democratic Party, PDP&#8217;s presidential campaign coordinator in the 2015 presidential election, admitted to have\u00a0 collected the money from the bank.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">He told EFCC&#8217;s interrogators that he went to the bank on that fateful day with Imasuen and a former House of Representatives member representing Edo Central, Tony Azeigbemi (who is yet to be arrested by the EFCC)\u00a0 and the money was handed over to them by an official of the bank.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both Imasuen and Iyamu signed for the collection of the money.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Investigations by the EFCC showed that the two politicians conveyed the money from the bank in a bullion van to the residence of a top politician in Edo State.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Commission is on the trail of the politician for the recovery of the money.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both Imasuen and Iyamu are still in the EFCC custody and will be charged to court soon.<\/p>\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>\u00a0&#8230;Detains Ex-Edo Dep Gov, SSG \u00a0\u00a0 Operatives of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today\u00a0quizzed a former\u00a0governor of Cross Rivers\u00a0State, Senator Liyel Imoke, for his alleged involvement in the N500million&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":49197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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