THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today invited and interrogated chief executive officers and managing directors of Zenith Bank, Providus Bank, and Jaiz Bank in connection with the over N44 billion fraud allegedly uncovered in the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation.
Sources at the EFCC disclosed that the senior bank executives were quizzed by the anti-graft commission at the EFCC headquarters in, Jabi, Abuja.
The invitation to the banks’ chiefs, it was gathered, was to help with the inquiries into the alleged fraud linked to the ₦585 million scandal linked to the now-suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Betta Edu.
“The CEOs and MDs of Zenith Bank, Providus Bank, and Jaiz Bank are currently being grilled by our interrogators here at the headquarters,” reported Punch newspaper.
“They were invited and are being probed in connection with the uncovered ₦44bn fraud and the ₦585million involving Halima Shehu and Betta Edu.
“The suspended minister and the coordinator have both made new revelations during their interrogations, and the investigation is still ongoing.”
Edu was suspended by President Bola Tinubu on Monday, over an alleged N585m cash transfer saga.
Also, Halima Shehu, the embattled Co-ordinator and Chief Executive Officer of the National Social Investment Programme Agency domiciled in the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation is being probed by the EFCC over an alleged ₦44bn fraud.
