Former Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, NIA, Mr. Ayodele Oke, and his wife, Folasade, have been declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
They are wanted in connection with alleged fraud involving N13 billion.
The money was found at a flat in Osborne Tower in Ikoyi Lagos in 2017.
Oke was sacked after a panel set up to probe the source of the cash indicted him.
The case is already in court and Oke and his wife are yet to appear.
The EFCC declared the duo wanted, according to a statement by its Acting Head of Media and Publicity, Mr. Tony Orilade, because they had refused to show up.
The statement reads in part: “Justice Chukwujeku Aneke of a Federal High Court Lagos, had on February 7, 2019 issued an arrest warrant on them, consequent upon an oral application by counsel for the EFCC, Rotimi Oyedepo.
“Oke and his wife are wanted in connection with the $43,449,947, £27,800 and N23,218,000 cash recovered by the EFCC from an apartment at Osborne Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, in April 2017.
“They are facing a four-count charge bordering on money laundering offence to the tune of N13 billion.
“One of the counts reads: “That you, Amb. Ayodele Oke and Mrs. Folasade Ayodele Oke between 25th day of August 2015 and 2nd day of September 2015 in Lagos, with in the jurisdiction of this court directly converted $160,777,136.85 property of the Federal Government of Nigeria to your own use which sum you reasonably ought to have known formed part of proceeds of an unlawful act to wit: criminal breach of trust and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 15 (2) (d) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) (Amendment) Act 2012 and punishable under Section 15(3) of the same Act”.
