The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has discovered another $72, 870,000 million linked to Diezani Alison-Madueke, the former Minister of Petroleum Resources.
The money was claimed to have been discovered in a Fidelity Bank Plc account.
As a result, Nnamdi Okonkwo, the bank’s former Managing Director, has been detained.
The Commission had previously quizzed Okonkwo, who is currently the Chairman of First Bank Holding, and others, over a sum of $153 million and $115 million.
While the EFCC was able to recover all of the $153 million, the $115 million in bribery charges involving the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, are still pending in various courts.
The EFCC has apprehended Okonkwo and Charles Onyedibe over the whereabouts of the additional $72.8 million.
