Nigeria’s anti-graft body, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has declared former director-general of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) Ayodele Oke and his wife, Folasade, wanted.
Oke and his wife are wanted in connection with the sum of $43,449,947 as well as £27,800 and N23,218,000 cash recovered by the EFCC from an apartment at Osborne road in Ikoyi, Lagos state, in April 2017.
The commission had filed four charges bordering on money laundering to the tune of N13 billion against the couple.
According to a statement from the EFCC on Sunday, the two were declared wanted following their failure to answer fraud charges filed against them.
Justice Chukwujeku Aneke of the Federal High Court in Lagos had on February 7, 2019, issued an arrest warrant on them.
The judge did that after an oral application by the counsel for the EFCC, Rotimi Oyedepo.
President Muhammadu Buhari had on 30 October, 2017, sacked Oke based on the report of a three-man panel led by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo that investigated them.
The Osinbajo-led panel probed Oke on the discovery of large amounts of foreign and local currencies by the EFCC in a residential apartment at Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos. The amounts were linked to him.