Interpol has been put on alert for the arrest of Odoh Eric Ocheme, Adamu Abubakar and Imam Abubakar, who have been accused of conspiring with former CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele to move $6.2m from the vault of the Apex bank.
Odoh Ocheme, a staff of the CBN, Adamu Abubakar and Imam Abubakar have been declared wanted for allegedly forging the signature of the former President Muhamadu Buhari to facilitate the release of the funds from the CBN.
According to a letter that was signed by Eloho Okpoziakpo, Deputy Commissioner of Police and Head of Operation, Office of Special Investigator, the Interpol should arrest the above named persons.
“In the course of the special investigator’s assignment, Mr Odoh Eric Ocheme, (a employee of the CBN) now at large and the other two accomplices, also now at large, were discovered to have conspired and forged documents in the name of the President, Federal Republic of Nigeria with which they stole about US$6,230,000 (Six million, two hundred and thirty thousand dollars), in cash, from the coffers of the CBN,” the special investigator wrote in the letter applying for the red notice.
“The data page of Odoh Eric Ocheme’s Nigerian passport no. B50082800, duly certified true copies of the warrants and the order of the court to that effect are hereby attached,” the letter indicated.
Boss Mustapha, former secretary to the government of the federation, testified in court on Tuesday that neither he nor then president Muhammadu Buhari approved the $6.2 million payment for international election observers.
