Also filed is an affidavit of urgency for the matter to be heard on December 27th 2018, before a vacation Judge sitting in Port Harcourt. WuzupNaija had on 20 December 2018 reported that the anti-graft agency intercepted the said money, based on an intelligence report, from two Ighoh Augustine and Ezekwe Emmanuel at the airport. According to the EFCC, the suspects had confessed during interrogation that they have been in the business of moving cash for “some notable banks”, for over six years and were in the process of doing same for Union Bank Plc, located at New Market, Onitsha, Anambra State, before their arrest. They allegedly worked for a company, Bankers Warehouse. The EFCC also said that it would be seeking an order to keep the two workers of Bankers’ Warehouse, who were arrested with the money in extended custody, adding that they were already providing the necessary information. The acting EFCC spokesman, Tony Orilade, also said in a The Punch report in Abuja on Monday that a third suspect, identified as Orji, had been detained in connection with the cash haul. He explained that Orji brought a letter to the commission seeking its permission to move some money from Enugu to Lagos, adding that the EFCC operatives simply detained him for further investigation. Orilade stated that no official of either Union Bank Plc which was claiming ownership of the $2.8m or Bankers’ Warehouse which was moving the money illegally had shown up at the commission to claim the money or explain the circumstances behind the mode of transfer. According to him, the two workers of Bankers’ Warehouse in custody were not released because nobody came for their bail. He further revealed that the commission would be probing the books of Bankers’ Warehouse to know the source of the confiscated cash. Orilade said, “We would be checking the company’s books to know the source of the money. If it was from customers, they must show the vouchers and proof of ownership, including lodgments. “If the money was from the (Union) bank, there must be records of such movement, who authorized the funds and for what purpose? The bank can’t coerce the commission to release the money, it has to show proof of ownership.”]]>

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