Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC are currently conducting a search operation at the Lagos head office of the Dangote Group.
The are conducting a search on forex allocations to the company during the tenure of Godwin Emefiele as Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria.
Dele Oyewale, the EFCC’s spokesman made this known on Thursday.
A Dangote employee also confirmed that the operatives are at the head office.
“They asked for documents on forex transactions with the CBN,” the employee said
Dangote Petroleum Refinery received its fourth shipment of one million barrels of bonny light crude oil, supplied by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL).
The fresh one million barrels of crude was the fourth consignment to be delivered to the Dangote facility out of the six million barrels of crude being expected by the world’s largest single-train refinery.
DAILY GIST recalls that Dangote Refinery had earlier, received three million barrels of crude.