American Banks Freezes Accounts Of Nigeria Missions In New York And Washington For Suspected Transaction.
Two American banks have
decided to place an embargo on accounts belonging to Nigeria missions in
New York and Washington D.C.
According to sources familiar with on-going investigations initiated by two leading American banks, Bank of America and Wells Fago,
the Nigerian missions, the country’s Embassy In Washington D.C and the
permanent mission to the United Nations had their account frozen
following the failure of Nigerian diplomatic officials to satisfactorily
explain suspicious use of a total of $3.6m, wire through separate
accounts with the two banks.
Sharpedgenew.com
learnt from sources familiar with the “critical investigations” that
the officials of the two banks suspected that accounts belonging to the
two missions may have been used as conduits for laundering and other
unscrupulous activities, after been flagged by relevant financial
monitoring agencies in the united State, auditors from the two banks
decided to scrutinize the missions’ books.
Employees
of the two diplomatic outlets have been having issues paying bills and
meeting other financial obligation because they have not been paid their
salaries and other entitlement after activities relating to the
operation of the missions’ accounts were poorly explained and a lien was
placed on their continued operations.
A source told sharpedgenew.com
that some Nigerian officials developed the habit of simply dumping
funds with affected accounts without justifiable end use, thus turning
the missions to conduit for siphoned away cash from Nigeria.
Nigeria’s
Auditor-general and his subordinate have since arrived the united state
to assist in reconciling the reckless and improperly kept books. But how the efforts of the auditors would clear the air on suspicious of stealing, fraud, money laundering, remains to be seen. A source claimed that such suspected funds usually originate from State Governors and other Nigerian functionaries.
In
the main time eyeballs are growing bigger and rolling in their socket
as hunger and wants have become unsolicited companion of Nigeria
diplomats in the US.
Source ;sharpedgenews.com
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