Money Laundering: US Freezes Nigerian Embassy's accounts.

Prof. Adefuye, head of Nigerian Embassy (Culpable)

The Nigerian Embassy in Washington DC  and Consular office in New York have had their bank accounts frozen. Bank of American, M&T  Bank and Wells Fargo responded to a directive from the Government of the United States to have the said accounts frozen after some transaction were flagged.

The Decision stemmed from an intelligence report generated by a panel comprising The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), the US Department of Justice and the Treasury Department who had placed a monitor on wire transfers and transaction involving the embassy.

It is thought that a sum of about $3.6 million has entered and left the accounts in under a month. The latest of which was a $50,000 lump sum withdrawn by a top embassy official over the last few days.

Efforts by the United States Government to get some clarity on what the money was intended for proved abortive and hence the said accounts were frozen.

This has left the embassy in a precarious state unable to pay its staff and carry out it's normal duties. Auditors  have been scrambled and are presently on their way to Washington DC to help resolve the situation.

The Nigerian Embassy has so far failed to provide information with regards to these transactions and have instead resorted to hint at a retaliatory action with regards to the United States Embassy in Nigeria.

This is a disgrace beyond measure and the latest whiff of acrid smoke spewing out of this ominous cesspit of corruption that the Federal Republic of Nigeria has been reduced to.

The head of the Nigerian Mission to the United States Prof. Adebowale Ibidapo Adefuye has yet to provide information of any sort to clarify this issue, his finance attaché Mr. S.A. Salami has so far been unreachable by either email of telephone.