The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has disclosed that it got orders from the Federal High Court, Abuja division, to freeze 194 bank accounts belonging to firms and Bureau De Change to enable it conduct investigations into suspicious activities.
It disclosed this on Thursday in three separate documents on its website. In one of the documents, the CBN said it got an order to freeze 60 bank accounts of Bluebeam Capital Limited.
The accounts were domiciled in 13 different banks, the CBN as the plaintiff stated. Bluebeam, as the respondent had eight accounts each in Access Bank and Keystone Bank; seven each in First Bank and Ecobank; five each in UBA and GTBank; four each in Fidelity Bank, FCMB and Sterling Bank; three accounts in Polaris Bank; two each in Wema Bank and Heritage Bank; and one in Providus Bank.
In another document, the CBN said it got an order to freeze 84 accounts in 17 banks.
The third documents revealed that the banking regulator had the court order to freeze 50 accounts domiciled in different banks.
– Media Report