A banker identified as Nwachukwu Amazu, on Tuesday told the Code of Conduct, CCT, how the President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki made transfers of over $3m to his foreign account while he was governor of Kwara State.
Saraki is currently facing charges before the Danladi Umar-led tribunal for false and anticipatory assets declaration when he was the governor of Kwara State.
At today’s resumed trial, Amazu, a staff of Guaranteed Trust Bank, GTBank, disclosed that the President of the Senate made several transactions, including a transfer of over $73,000 from his dollar account, with the bank to his foreign account in the American Express Service Europe Ltd.
The prosecution witness told the tribunal that the purpose of the transfer was to fund a foreign credit card, belonging to the American Express Bank and owned by the accused.
According to Amazu, Saraki made other transfers including the transfer of £761, 904. 76 in February 2010.
The Banker who worked with the funds transfer unit of GTB between 2006 and 2009 before he was transferred; then returned to the unit in 2011, said, “He has a domiciliary account, with the GTB in US dollars and in pounds sterling. The domiciliary account is domiciled in Ilorin.”
On the mode of operation of Saraki’s foreign credit card, the banker said he did not know how the card operates.
“I don’t know anything about the card, except if I explain with my knowledge of the GTB credit card in the Nigerian perspective,” Amazu said.
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