How Access, Sterling, Fidelity, First Banks laundered $153m for Diezani

Reports from EFCC shows that top four banks that have been fingered in laundering a total of $153,310,000 for ex-Minister, Diezani Allison Madueke.

The top four banks include Access Bank, Sterling Bank, Fidelity Bank and First Bank of Nigeria.

The EFCC had made his revelation on Friday, January 6, 2016 when the anti-graft agency’s counsel told a Federal High Court that the huge cash was wired from NNPC accounts to Fidelity Bank.

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The fund was said to have later been shared for safe keeping among Sterling Bank, Access Bank Plc, First Bank Plc and Fidelity Bank Plc.

The anti-graft agency also stressed how the banks had “aided and abetted the massive fraud perpetrated by the minister.”

Here are details of how the funds were shared amongst the commercial banks for safe keeping.

Access Bank: $5million out of the total sum

Sterling Bank: N23, 446, 300,000

First Bank: N9,080,000,000.

Fidelity Bank: Yet to be disclosed.