The special investigator appointed by President Bola Tinubu to investigate the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), related entities and other key government business entities has placed a senior official of the apex bank, Odoh Eric Ocheme, on the watch list of International Police Organisation (INTERPOL).
In a letter to the Nigeria Police, dated February 12 and signed by the head of operations of the special investigator, DCP Eloho Okpoziakpo, two others, Adamu Abubakar and Imam Abubakar, were also placed on the watch list.
The letter entitled “Request To Watchlist And Placing On Interpol Red Notice 3 Defendants Involved In A Case Of Conspiracy And Fraud” reads in part: “In the course of the special investigator’s assignment, Mr. Odoh Eric Ocheme, (a staffer of the CBN) now at large, and the other two accomplices, also now at large, were discovered to have conspired and forged documents in the name of the president, Federal Republic of Nigeria, with which they stole about US$6,230,000 (six million, two hundred and thirty thousand dollars) in cash, from the coffers of the CBN.
“Consequent upon the above, a charge was filed and warrants of arrest have been issued by the Federal High Court of Nigeria …for the arrest and production of the Defendants named above for their arraignment. The data page of Odoh Eric Ocheme’s Nigerian International Passport No. B50082800. Duly certified true copies of the warrants and the Order of the Court to that effect are hereby attached.”
The special investigator asked INTERPOL to assist in apprehending and repatriating the duo from any of the INTERPOL member states to which they may have flown.
