A statement issued Sunday by HEDA indicated that others in copy of the subpoenas are: Simon Loyd, formerly, Executive Director, J. P. Morgan, EMEA AML and Sanctions Compliance, London, who is Currently the Senior Vice President/Head of FCC Central Oversight, PMO & Regulatory Deliverables at Danske Bank; the Minister of Justice/ Attorney general of the Federation, Abubakar Malami; Mohammed Bello Adoke himself; Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Court in Milan- Italy and Osolake Bayo, Global Head of Financial Institutions Trade Product Sales Specialist at J.P Morgan, London.
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HEDA made this known in a letter written to the Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa and copied the State’s Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, during the week.
The disclosure was made in a press statement signed by the Executive Secretary of the agency, Sulaimon Arigbabu.
HEDA indicated this in a press statement issued Sunday.
In a statement delivered by the chairman of HEDA, Olanrewaju Suraju, the civil group hopes that the progressive provisions contained in the Act would facilitate the conduct of free, fair and credible elections going forward.
At the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja over the weekend, the prosecution counsel, Bagudu Sani, told the court that they had filed an amended charge, thereby bringing the counts down to two from the four initially filed.
The Chairman of HEDA, Suraju Olanrewaju, made the position of the anti-corruption group known in a statement on Monday.
The highly ranked US senator made his position on the issue known on his personal Twitter handle on Sunday.
In a statement signed by the Chairman of HEDA, Olanrewaju Suraju, co-founder of Corner House, Nick Hildyard, and Programme Director of RE: COMMON, Antonio Tricarico, the groups said in order to guarantee confidence in the outcome of the inquiry, a thoroughgoing, independent investigation into the alleged fraud should be set up, hence it’s unwise for one to investigate oneself.
This was disclosed by organisers of the Award, Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre).
Former Minister of Justice, Bello Adoke, one of those accused of and charged with fraud in the OPL245 scam, also referred to as Malabu scandal, had petitioned the police, accusing those behind petitions resulting his prosecution for corruption and money laundering of circulating fabricated evidence against him to unduly incriminate him in the multi-million dollars scandal.
The organization noted that the said media report by the Cable was based on a report by the IGP Monitoring Unit of the Nigeria Police Force.
Suraju was indicted by an investigation carried out by the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) monitoring team in Abuja.
The bank in August had announced its technical partner for its Digital Currency Project after what it described as a competitive bidding process.
The Lagos State House of Assembly announced the decision to slash the pensions on Thursday.
In a suit filed at the FCT High Court in Abuja, HEDA is asking Adoke to withdraw the malicious publications and pay N100m as damages.
The former FIIRO Acting Director was caught in a web of dirty scam after submitting a Ph.D certificate that was later discovered to be false.
The programme held at the Sheraton Hotel, Lagos, was in commemoration of the June 12, 1993 elections won by late Chief MKO Abiola.
At the conference held in Abuja, the professional groups committed to collaborating with anti-corruption institutions and civil society working on anti-corruption.
The group said the petition written against it (by Adoke, through his lawyers) was a conscious attempt to bully it and divert public attention from the string of shady deals committed by top Nigerian officials in the celebrated OPL 245 scam.