Document Shows How Wema Bank Officials Offered Bribe To Policeman, To Stop Investigation On N1.7billion Money Laundering, Fraud

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The report endorsed by the Commander of Area G, Lagos, ACP Ibrahim Zungura, said numerous deceitful exchanges were brought out through the account.

A report by the Nigeria Police Force has uncovered how Wema Bank Plc offered pay off to the cop examining the N1.7billion wrongfully moved to account number 0122367964 domiciled in the monetary foundation and worked by one Isaac Adewole, a minister of the Redeemed Christian Church of God by high ranking representatives of the bank.

The Wema Bank staff individuals fingered in the false exercises are the bank’s Executive Director, Wole Akinleye; Head of Cooperate Banking, Emmanuel Edah, and Head of Oil and Gas, Kingsley Ananwude.The report endorsed by the Commander of Area G, Lagos, ACP Ibrahim Zungura, said different deceitful exchanges were brought out through the record.

“The culpability of WEMA Bank officials was additionally affirmed when the officials attempted to pay off examining officials with huge envelopes that contained cash.

“The officials declined the pay-offs yet the Bank continued. The authorities invested energy asking and convincing the inestigating officials to drop the case. The Executive Director of the Bank, Mr Wole Akinleye, was likewise welcomed and he made a good attempt to crash and stop the examination. He likewise composed a letter to ask that he be excused from the situation when it was plainly settled that the bank couldn’t make sense of the exchanges, that the development of assets was a type of taking from the bank which is in some cases alluded to as ‘take care of source’.

“This is shown by the realities that the assets kept were not eliminated in a specific order or in the totals saved however painstakingly eliminated in various tranches as it is displayed on the record explanations. For his own part, Mr Adewole wouldn’t help out he examinations however rather did all that he could to help the bank in concealing,” the report solely acquired by SaharaReporters read.Meanwhile, the police has charged one Ojo Oladipupo, Chief Security Officer of Wema Bank Plc, to court for endeavored pay off.

He was blamed for offering a police officer, ASP Jonathan Egwemi (A/P No: 143699), financial prize to prevent him from doing a detail examination concerning the fake and tax evasion exercises of the bank.”That you Ojo Oladipupo “M” and others now on the loose on a similar date, general setting in the previously mentioned authoritative region did purposefully endeavor to offer the station official A/P No: 143699 ASP Jonathan Egwemi money related compensation to reevaluate him from completing a detail examination concerning the deceitful and illegal tax avoidance exercises of your association i.e WEMA Bank Nigeria Plc and accordingly carried out an offense in spite of and culpable under segment 64 of the criminal laws of Lagos State of Nigeria,” one of the charges read.

SaharaReporters had announced how N1.7billion were deceitfully moved to account number 0122367964, domiciled in the monetary foundation and worked by Adewole.

Different sources acquainted with the extortion said Adewole, who is likewise the Managing Director of Shibawells Energy Limited, moved toward the bank in 2018 for a credit to help his oil exchanging business involving his neighbor’s resources as security.

Allowing the advance to the minister, the monetary foundation opened a record for him where the cash was paid.

The record was, notwithstanding, used to wrongfully move N1.7billion from the bank in 2021 to numerous records worked by top staff individuals and their proxies.”He involved his neighbor’s home for insurance of the advance which was allowed to him and vowed to return it in six months or less. Yet, three years later, the man moved toward him for his home archive, that was the point at which he told him of the deceitful demonstration. He said the bank paid N1.7billion into the record utilizing different global organizations like Dana Airlines, Caverton Helicopter and two others, one N300million, one N270million, one N600million and like that, it’s only one of the exchanges that they didn’t put a name thereGuess what they do after, they currently moved that N1.7billion from Adewole’s record into various financial balances in tranches. Like the one I told you — N600million, they quickly put it in one more record in type of N150million, N100million, N100million, N90million. The minister’s record is known as Shibawells Energy Limited. The one for Dana that they moved N160million to, that was the means by which they did it as well, they quickly sent it to one more record in more modest units too.

“So the minister moved toward the bank rather than the police. The top administration staff included called him and asked him what he needed, they currently finished with an understanding that the bank would provide him with an additional a credit of N1.5billion and he concurred. Recall that I let you know this man is the Managing Director of Shibawells Energy Limited, an organization that provisions aeronautics fuel. So we understood it was all around arranged and the names of Dana, Caverton and others were purposefully used to conceal the extortion so individuals won’t take note. We additionally acknowledged in our examination that this cash was given to the banks by the CBN and these high ranking representatives needed to utilize a record to move it out and involve it for something else.”He has an accomplice, we called him and acknowledged he didn’t know about the exchange. He was stunned, he understood the articulation introduced to him was fashioned to conceal the false exchange.”

As per Adewole’s assertion of record got by SaharaReporters, on January 28 2021 by means of exchange ID No: M35660, he got the amount of N424,811,000 from Caverton, N160,000,000 from Dana and N630,000,000 from Beam Energy, all with a similar exchange number.

On June 18, 2021 through exchange ID No: M104031, the minister got the amount of N300,000,000 by means of NIP move from an undisclosed record source.

Likewise on same June 18, 2021, by means of exchange ID No: M104031, Adewole got the amount of N270,000,000 from Messrs Morrifoil Oil and Gas Ltd., all totalling N1,784,811,000.

At the point when reached, a source at Dana Air said the carrier did no exchange with Adewole nor his organization, Shibawells Energy Limited.”If I let you know we don’t know about this case, then I’m lying, the police some time prior welcomed us and we were astounded that the organization’s name was utilized for a particularly deceitful exchange. It will be off-base for me to impart our bank proclamation to you yet such an exchange wasn’t approved by us,” a source at Dana Air told SaharaReporters.

“We weren’t associated with such an arrangement, just the bank the executives can perceive you why they utilize Dana’s name for the exchange. Go to the bank tomorrow and send cash to anybody and use Dana as the shipper they won’t prevent you from doing that. Jokes separated, assuming we have that sort of sum, my sibling, we have no issue,” the source added.

In January 2022, a gathering, Transparency Nigeria Group, requested the Central Bank from Nigeria to excuse the Chief Executive Officer of Wema Bank, Ademola Ademise, over supposed extortion.

The gathering in a proclamation by Dahiru Mohammed, its Communications Director, affirmed that Ademise had terribly manhandled his office as CEO of the bank and negated a few surviving guidelines of the CBN.According to the gathering, Wema Bank, under Ademise’s supervision, concealed an enormous deceitful plan executed by organizations and intermediaries of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu.

Requiring his quick evacuation, TNG said, “In doing this, Mr Ademise bombed in his guardian obligations and permitted a strong legislator to involve Wema Bank as a clearing house for washed reserves.”

The gathering alluded to a story dated November 23, 2020 by Peoples Gazette where bank records showed that Ocean Trust Limited, an organization connected to Tinubu, rearranged billions of naira between its records with Wema Bank.

The paper archived the exchange among January and June 2019 on how Ocean Trust immediately moved N16.4billion from its activities accounts into a proper store account all domiciled in Wema Bank.

This was after the legal dispute including Dayo Apara, a previous Managing Director of Alpha Beta, an organization somewhat claimed by Tinubu.Ocean Trust was explicitly referenced in Apara’s court archives as one of the organizations purportedly used to siphon assets from Alpha-Beta, the dubious Lagos charge project worker.

As indicated by the report, Alpha Beta has gotten billions of naira from the Lagos depository since Tinubu was lead representative.

Apara asserted the firm gotten N150billion in the beyond a long time from Lagos.