The court blocks the former chief nnpcl, the accounts of Kyari

The Federal Court of Abuja has ordered the temporary freezing of four bank accounts linked to the former CEO of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari group.

The order, issued on Tuesday by the judge Emeka Nwite, followed an ex -party application presented by the Commission for economic and financial crimes (EFCC). The Anti-Innesto Agency said that the accounts, domiciled in the Bank of Jaiz, were linked to suspicious transactions that ran in hundreds of millions of naira.

Although the EFCC looked for a 60 -day block, the judge granted a 30 -day order, with the renewal option. He established that the question was meritorious and necessary to protect the investigations in progress.

The court documents listed the accounts concerned as belonging to Kyari apples, Guwori Community Development and Guwori Community Development Foundation Foundation.

According to EFCC, the preliminary results related to ₦ 661.4 million to the accounts, suspected of being crime proceeds. The commission stated that Kyari used delegates, including family members, to manage the accounts, who received affluent from nnpcl and oil companies.

He also said that some of the suspicious transactions were masked by payments for the launching and NGOs of a book.

The issue was updated to 23 September for the EFCC to provide an update on its investigation.

The Commission stressed that the freezing order was vital to preserve the funds pending possible judicial proceedings.