Police sources told PUNCH Metro
that a senior official of the bank, Ms. Olubukola Oritogun, and two
others allegedly defrauded unsuspecting customers of the said sum. A
fourth yet-to-be identifed person is said to be on the run.
PUNCH Metro gathered that
Oritogun and her accomplices were allegedly in the habit of informing
wealthy customers who wanted to buy dollars that there was a dollar
account in the bank that they could purchase them from.
The source, who requested anonymity
said, “Oritogun would inform some persons that if they wanted to buy
dollars, it was available in the bank. She would make the account
details available to the customer. Unknown to the victim, the dollar
account is owned by another customer of the bank.
“The victim would then ask his own
contact in the bank to check the account. Once it has been confirmed
that the account indeed has a certain amount of dollars, the victim
would then transfer the naira equivalent of what he wanted to buy to
Oritogun in exchange for the dollars.”
She was said to have defrauded several persons in that manner until a complaint was lodged at SARS.
PUNCH Metro gathered that on the
day of Oritogun’s arrest, she had already booked a flight to the United
States and was preparing to flee the country.
It was learnt that the police had recovered N166m of the stolen funds.
The Lagos State Police Public Relations
officer, DSP Ngozi Braide, said she would call our correspondent back
whe she was contacted.
The bank’s spokesperson, Mr. Victor
Adoji, when contacted, said, “We actually detected the fraud first. We
subsequently made a report to the Special Fraud Unit and they have
started investigation. Some of our employees were arrested in connection
with the case.
“As of now, we have feedback as regards the current state of investigation.”
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