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former manager with Intercontinental Bank Plc( now Access Bank), Mr.
Olayinka Sanni and Personal Assistant to Adeyemi Ikuforiji, Speaker of
the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr. Oyebode Atoyebi have been
arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over a
case of conspiracy, stealing and forgery amounting to about N1.5billion.
Sanni,
a chartered accountant and operator of SIDAW Ventures, a Bureau de
Change, was alleged to have fraudulently transferred various sums of
money from more than seven customers of the bank into the account of
SIDAW ventures owned and operated by him without the customers’ consent.
Specifically,
he transferred N65million from the account of Babington Junior
Seminary; N40million from P.W. Nigeria Limited’s account; N15million
from Mikano International’s account; N20million from Viju Industries
Limited’s account, N306million from the account of Falana & Falana
Chambers and Fafun Nigeria Limited and N1.2billion from Murhi
International Limited into his SIDAW Ventures account without the
consent of the account owners.
Besides,
Sanni also collected the sum of $461,200 USD from one Chukwurah Nkiru,
who sold it to him for the equivalent of N76, 559,200 but was not paid.
Sanni
is also embroiled in a foreign exchange scam where his SIDAW Ventures
account was used to handle the sum of N104, 405, 000 where only
N72,229,000 worth of foreign exchange was paid to the customer leaving a
balance of N32, 185, 000 being hotly contested between his firm and the
customer. Oyebode Atoyebi, Personal Assistant to Ikuforiji was also
arrested for complicity and conspiracy with Sanni for allowing his
passport-sized photograph and name to be used to open an account in
SIDAW ventures limited in the name of Akanmu Babatunde. With this
fictitious name, Sanni brokered many shady deals and duped many innocent
people.
The two suspects will soon be arraigned in court.
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