The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has distanced itself from the $43million, that was discovered in an apartment in the Osborne Towers, Ikoyi.
Spokesperson of the apex bank, Isaac Okorafor, insisted that they did not know the source of the money.
He also explained that the CBN issues serial currencies to banks, who were then free to give such currencies to their clients.
“I do not know the source of the money; we (CBN) only issue currencies to banks which then transmit the currencies to their customers,” Okorafor told The Nation.
TheNewsGuru.com reports that operatives of the EFCC had last Wednesday stormed the apartment and found $43,449,947, £27,800 and N23,218,000 stacked inside a fireproof safe.
However, since the discovery of the loot, there has been unending controversies over its ownership.