The Commission said it took great restraints for the operatives to ignore the unprovoked attack but insisted on arresting the suspect.
The naira has continued to fall, exchanging at N820 against the dollar on Tuesday evening.
The two clerics were hired and lodged in the hotel to offer spiritual help to the arrested suspects, said EFCC.
The airline boss is said to have diverted 50 per cent of funds paid to him by the National Hajj Commission and additional $900,000 for the airlift of pilgrims in 2019.
Eleven vehicles, 29 phones and suspected hard drugs were said to have been recovered from the suspects.
