The Managing Director of Access Bank Plc, Herbert Wigwe, was on Friday captured by agents of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Wigwe was gotten up Bank’s administrative center in Victoria Island, Lagos State.
Sources said he went through the night at the Lagos State office of the EFCC.
The purpose behind the capture was not revealed by both the EFCC and the bank as at press time.
SOME OTHER BANK HEADS WERE PICKED BY EFCC RECENTLY
Nonetheless, Wigwe will be the third leader of a Bank to be gotten by the EFCC over the most recent two weeks.
Others captured before him incorporated the Managing Director of Fidelity Bank Plc, Nnamdi Okonkwo, for purportedly getting in real money $115 million into the Bank’s coffers from a previous Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke.
Okonkwo was likewise purportedly by and by given another money of $26 million.
The Bank has denied complicity in the issue, saying it revealed the improvement to the fitting specialists.
Following the improvement, the Executive Director, North, of the Bank, Balarabe Musa, has been named as acting MD.
The Managing Director of Sterling Bank Plc, Yemi Adeola, was likewise tested by the EFCC during the week.
