Posted on: 02:17 Sun, 06 Nov 2016

Skye Bank officials raised alarm in the week after the Patience Jonathan, wife of the former President Goodluck Jonathan tried to withdraw money from her frozen account.



Patience Jonathan, wife of the former president Goodluck Jonathan has been caught trying to withdraw the sum of $5million from her account frozen by the anti-graft agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

According to Punch, a source within the anti-graft agency, revealed that Dame Patience Jonathan made the move to withdraaw the huge sum from her frozen account during the week.

However, the transaction couldn’t go through as a Skye Bank plc official alerted EFCC officials who swung into action.

The source further revealed: “We received an alert from Skye Bank during the week that Patience attempted to withdraw $5m from her personal account titled Patience Ibifaka Jonathan which is domiciled at the bank.

“We immediately told the bank not to allow any withdrawal because a ‘No Debit Order’ had been placed on the account.”

It would be recalled that the EFCC in September 2016, froze Patience Jonathan’s personal account containing $5 million.

The agency also froze accounts of four companies – Pluto Property and Investment Company Limited; Seagate Property Development and Investment Company Limited; Trans Ocean Property and Investment Company Limited; and Globus Integrated Service Limited – containing $15,591,700 which Patience Jonathan claimed belonged to her.