Margaret Emefiele, the wife of a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, and three others, have been declared wanted for money laundering.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in a publication on Friday, said Mrs Emefiele, alongside Mr Eric Odoh, Anita Omoile and her husband, Jonathan Omoile, were wanted for allegedly conspiring with the former CBN Governor “to convert huge sums of money belonging to the Federal Government of Nigeria and committed felony to wit obtaining money by false pretences, and stealing, contrary to and punishable under Sections 411, 287, and 314 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State.”
TheLeadng reports that Emefiele was suspended as CBN governor in June 2023 by President Bola Tinubu.
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He was subsequently arrested, detained and prosecuted by the Department of State Services (DSS). His arraignment in court was high drama in the year, of which the climax was on July 25 when DSS agents and prison officials fought over the custody of the embattled former CBN governor after Justice Nicolas Oweibo, had granted him bail in the sum of N20m and a surety in like sum as well as signed a warrant for his remand at Ikoyi prison, Lagos, pending the perfection of his bail.
Emefiele who had spent times in the custody of the DSS and the EFCC since his arrest in June, finally regained freedom on December 22 from Kuje prisons where he was remanded in November after a Federal Capital Territory High Court granted him N300m bail
Emefiele is standing trial on six counts bordering on procurement fraud to the tune of N1.2bn.
