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Tuesday, August 28, 2018 18.48PM / Agency News
The Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared wanted some members of staff of
the First City Monument Bank (FCMB) over an alleged multi-million naira
customer deposit fraud.
With their whereabouts
unknown, the Nigeria Police has secured an arrest warrant from a magistrate
court in Lagos to effect the arrest of the suspected fraudulent staff fingered
in the heist.
The names of the bankers as declared wanted by the Police include: Linda
Natufe Chekwube, Matthew Akpan Benny, Juwon Faromoh, Oluwasoji Ajetumobi,
Ogunlaja Olasukanmi Ganiyu, Oshiojum Chibuzor Wilson, Akanaga Christian Chika,
Nelson Omuzagha and Adeyemi Omitogun.
The suspects were alleged to have duped depositors of their hard earned money
through numerous crafty means. Ogunlaja and Chekwube were found to have
allegedly authorised overdraft totalling three hundred and eighty eight million
naira (N388 million).
Reports have it that
another duo allegedly transferred customers’ monies to other accounts and
closed the accounts without consent or authorisation from the accounts’ holders
while others allegedly stole customers’ deposits undetected by the bank.
Only recently, a staff of the bank, Adejare Sonde (now relieved of his job),
was arraigned on 12-count charge on allegedly stealing N124 million of a
depositor’s account.
The case was instituted
by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission at a State High Court sitting
in Abeokuta, Ogun State. Sonde was accused of using his position as the account
officer to a micro-finance bank to steal N124 million from the customer’s
account. The petitioner, EFCC, alleged that Sonde collected cash from the
micro-finance bank on several occasions totalling N124 million which were not
credited into the customer’s account.
Further investigations
revealed that the defendant (Sonde) allegedly doctored emails which he sent to
the micro-finance bank as monthly statements of account, while there was no
remittance in the account.
In the same vein, two
officials of the bank, identified as Walter Ekomaye and Ebenezer Adelowo, were
also arraigned on January 19, 2018 for allegedly making illegal withdrawal of
N23 million from customers’ accounts and stealing N17.5 million from Automated
Teller Machine (ATM) deposits.
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