The Chairman of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, on Saturday clarified the current go to of officers of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee, EFCC, to its Head Workplace in Lagos State.
Recall that officers of the EFCC visited the Dangote Group headquarters in Lagos on Thursday, to research foreign exchange allocations to the corporate through the tenure of Godwin Emefiele as Governor of the Central Financial institution of Nigeria, CBN.
Nevertheless, days after the EFCC go to, Dangote Administration, in a press release on the weekend defined that “the corporate acquired a letter from the EFCC within the first week of December 2023, requesting particulars of all of the international alternate allotted to the corporate by the CBN from 2014 to the current.
The assertion mentioned, “We perceive comparable letters have been despatched to 51 different Teams of corporations requesting for a similar info spanning the identical interval.”
Based on the assertion, the corporate responded to the EFCC to acknowledge receipt of the letter while in search of clarification on the subsidiaries or corporations throughout the Group that they required info on.
It mentioned the corporate additionally requested further time to compile and correctly current the in depth documentation spanning ten years.
The assertion partly learn, “the EFCC didn’t present the clarification sought and in addition didn’t honour our request for an extension and insisted on receiving the entire set of paperwork throughout the restricted timeframe.”
“On 4 January 2024, our group delivered the primary batch of paperwork to the EFCC. Nevertheless, officers of the EFCC didn’t settle for the paperwork, insisting on visiting our workplaces to gather the identical set of paperwork immediately.
“While our representatives have been nonetheless on the EFCC’s workplace to ship the paperwork, a group of their officers proceeded to go to our workplaces to demand the identical paperwork in a fashion that appeared designed to trigger us unwarranted embarrassment.”
It famous that no accusations of wrongdoing have been made in opposition to the corporate by the EFCC, including that they’re responding to a request for info to help the anti-graft company with their ongoing investigation.