Officials of Skye Bank Plc have informed the Economic and Financial 
Crimes Commission (EFCC) of newly discovered accounts owned by Mrs. 
Patience Jonathan, wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan. The 
accounts are said to have an aggregate  balance of 
$40million.                                             
Last month,  the EFCC froze Mrs. Jonathan's $30.1million in various 
accounts domiciled in the same bank. Sources at the bank told 
SaharaReporters that the latest discoveries were brought to EFCC's 
attention by Skye Bank officials angered by the limp explanations on how
 she came about such a huge sum in the multiple domiciliary accounts 
earlier frozen by the EFCC.
The newly discovered accounts were said to have been opened by Mrs. 
Jonathan, using fake names, and abetted by crooked bank officials.
The EFCC, SaharaReporters learnt, has obtained a court order to 
freeze the accounts. Since the discovery of the bank accounts, Mrs. 
Jonathan has taken desperate measures to retrieve the illegal loot from 
EFCC's grip, with the most recent being the hiring a lawyer, Barrister 
Osuagwu Ugochukwu, to write to the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) 
requesting it to confirm if Mrs. Jonathan and her husband declared the 
monies after leaving the Presidency in 2015.
Osuagwu had employed the same trick in the case of the  Chief of Army
 Staff, General Tukur Yusuf Buratai, whom the CCB said declared the 
$1.5million properties acquired in Dubai, apparently using Nigerian Army
 funds.         
However, a letter recently obtained by SaharaReporters shows that the CCB never screened General Buratai.
Sahara Reporters 

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