{"id":83754,"date":"2021-07-16T09:10:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T08:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=83754"},"modified":"2021-07-16T09:13:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T08:13:35","slug":"fg-launches-fresh-investigation-on-40m-other-assets-belonging-to-ex-first-bank-ed-lawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fg-launches-fresh-investigation-on-40m-other-assets-belonging-to-ex-first-bank-ed-lawal\/","title":{"rendered":"FG launches fresh investigation on $40m, other assets belonging to Ex-First Bank ED, Lawal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif;\">The Federal Government of Nigeria is set to begin series of investigations into the sources of funds and other assets belonging to the former Executive Director of the First Bank, Dauda Lawal Dare.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif;\">The former Executive Director has recently secured a court judgement for the release of $40m the Economic and Finacial Crimes Comission EFCC confiscated from him on allegation that the money is a proceed of corruption.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif;\">The Federal Government said though it has agreed and accepted the court judgement, the former executive director must account for how he got the $40m, since his salary and earnings as the executive director of the bank could not have placed him on the position to acquire such amount of money and that the bank rules prevent him from carrying out any businesses while in office.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif;\">\u00a0Meanwhile the anti-grafts agencies have despatched letters of invitation to the former ED to present his assets declaration forms completed before and after he joined the services of the bank.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif;\">The agencies said the series of investigations are set to commence immediately after Sallah break.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif;\">Other assets belonging to the former ED of the first bank which are also to be investigated by the agencies include his fertilezer company, Zamzam hotel, Alminium production company, properties he acquired in both London and Dubai.<\/span><\/div>\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>The Federal Government of Nigeria is set to begin series of investigations into the sources of funds and other assets belonging to the former Executive Director of the First Bank,&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":83755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive","category-pointblanknews-investigations"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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