The EFCC urged anyone with information on the suspects’ whereabouts to contact it or the police.
Justice Hamza Muazu on November 22, 2023, granted Mr Emefiele bail in the sum of N300 million.
He, therefore, among others, sought an injunction restraining the respondents from further arresting him.
Jim Obazee’s team has been following a theory that the safes were removed and a new set planted as a decoy to derail the ongoing probe.Â
The special investigator said the exploitation of ways and means was a criminal offence that should be severely punished under existing regulations of the central bank.
Mr Moghalu decried the investigation as a media trial.
The recommendation could plunge the country into a fresh round of currency crisis even as the initial chaos that followed last year’s introduction of new notes has lingered.
The theft, said to have occurred on February 8, 2023, was listed among a laundry of corrupt diversions of public cash linked to Mr Emefiele and other Buhari admin officials.
The report accused the former CBN boss of using Ways and Means advances by the apex to enrich himself.
The immediate past CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele, had, in a bid to further promote the cashless policy in the country, implemented the cash deposits limit.
