A former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Professor Chukwuma
Soludo, who was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
on Thursday for alleged complicity in the Australian polymer banknotes
bribery scandal estimated at over N750 million, has been released on
bail.
A source in the EFCC said that Soludo was released after several
hours of interrogation by a team of investigators at the commission, but
not before he had surrendered his diplomatic passport and had produced
two sureties who were at least senior civil servants in the federal
civil service on the rank of permanent secretary or director.
Soludo has, however taken issue with reports that state he was
arrested by the EFCC. According to his media spokesperson he surrendered
voluntarily to the EFCC in order to aid them in an ongoing
investigation.
The statement reads in part, “we want to put it on record that the
media reports that Professor Soludo was arrested by the operatives of
the EFCC in Abuja are totally false, or to say the least, written in
error.
“The fact of the matter is that the EFCC wrote a letter to Soludo, inviting him to their Abuja office on January 10, 2013.
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