Billionaire Tunde Ayeni is locked in a battle with ailing financial institution, Heritage Bank over an unpaid N40 billion loan, this is as the former continues to wallow in a series of controversies lately.
Tunde Ayeni had days back issued a press statement against his alleged estranged lover, Adaobi Alagwu where he distanced himself from the latter’s baby which was widely believed to be his. The controversial billionaire firmly opposed the widely publicized report naming him as the father of the child.
This was preceded by a whirlwind romance between Ayeni and Miss Alagwu who is strongly perceived to be his second wife. There were indications that the billionaire showered her with mouthwatering gifts which includes, a Range Rover Vogue, a palatial mansion, and an office building which he has now reportedly recovered from her.
This online platform reports that a cursory look into the life of billionaire Tunde Ayeni reveals the identity of a man bedeviled with too many controversies. The report below showcases how an unpaid loan in the tune of N40 billion owed to troubled lender, Heritage Bank has now locked him in another legal tussle likely to breed another round of controversy.
In what appears to be a case of the rich getting richer and cornering depositors’ funds for personal use, controversial businessman, Tunde Ayeni is in the news again for the wrong reasons, The Witness reports.
Fresh from seemingly getting a reprieve from his Skye Bank legal battle – a bank he allegedly ran down – Ayeni, a former chairman of the defunct Skye Bank Plc, is enmeshed in another financial scandal over an alleged unpaid N40 billion loan he secured from Heritage Bank.
It was reliably gathered that the bank has petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over his alleged indebtedness to the lender.
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Recall that Ayeni and the then managing director of the defunct Skye Bank, Timothy Oguntayo, faced 10 charges bordering on money laundering to the tune of N25.4 billion brought before them by the EFCC in 2019.
The alleged heist by the duo during their time at the bank eventually brought the financial institution down, prompting an intervention from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in September 2018. The apex bank took over the struggling lender, christened it Polaris Bank Limited, and eventually sold it to new investors in October 2022.
