Immediate past Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele, reportedly lodged billions of naira in no fewer than 593 bank accounts in the United States, United Kingdom and China without the approval of the apex bank’s Board of Directors and the CBN Investment Committee, The PUNCH has reported..
This was revealed in the report of the Special Investigator on the CBN and Related Entities, Jim Obaze, according to The PUNCH.
Obaze found that the ex-CBN governor lodged £543, 482,213 in fixed deposits in UK banks alone without authorisation.
When contacted by The PUNCH, counsel for Emefiele, Mathew Bukkaa, SAN, asked one of its correspondents to send him a text message.  
Bukkaa did not reply to the message as of the time of filing the report.
Obaze submitted his final report, tagged: “Report of the Special Investigation on CBN and Related Entities (Chargeable offences),” to President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday.
The report  partly read: “The former governor of CBN, Godwin Emefiele invested Nigeria’s money without authorization in 593 foreign bank accounts in United States, China and United Kingdom,  while he was in charge.
“All the accounts where the billions were lodged have all been traced by the investigator.”
In a letter dated July 28, 2023, sighted by The PUNCH, President Bola Tinubu had named Obaze, a former Executive Secretary of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria, as the CBN special investigator.
Emefiele, who is currently in Kuje Custodial Centre, Abuja, is being prosecuted for N1.2 billion procurement fraud.