Hacker steals N68bn from bank

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned a man for allegedly hacking into a second generation bank and stealing N68,028,000,000, has been charged to court. 

The accused, Stephen Omaidu, was arraigned before Justice M. A. Nasir of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting in Jabi, Abuja on a twocount charge bordering on theft to the tune of N68,028,000,000, on Monday. 
The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges. The Head, Media and Publicity, EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, said Omaidu, in connivance with Alhaji K. B. Kabiru, Godswill Oyegwa, Ben and Oliver, all at large, allegedly hacked into the server of a second generation bank and transferred the money.
“He transferred the money into different accounts for personal gains,” Uwujaren said. According to him, the offence is punishable under Section 287 of the Penal Code Act. Following his “not guilty” plea, counsel to EFCC, S. A. Ugwuebgulam, asked the court to fix a date for trial to commence. However, defence counsel, Gabriel O. Sanifu, urged the court to admit the accused to bail pending trial, saying the offence was bailable. Ugwuebgulam objected to the application on the grounds that the accused had failed to honour the administrative bail terms earlier granted him by the commission and could do same if not remanded by the court.
Nasir ordered the accused to be remanded in the EFCC custody and adjourned the case till April 28 for ruling on the bail application. In another development, an accused, Waheed Adeniyi, has confessed that he defrauded a victim over N1 million via Facebook.
Adeniyi aka Ibrahim Waziri reportedly defrauded one Emmanuel Iheanyi Nwogu of N1,010,000, after he posted a fake auction advertorial on Facebook, claiming he had vehicles impounded by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) for sale.
The accused, who was arraigned on Monday before Justice B. O. Quadri of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt by the EFCC, pleaded guilty to the onecount charge of fraud. The charge reads, “that you Waheed Adeniji (alias Ibrahim Waziri), on or about the 3rd February 2014 at Port Harcourt within the jurisdiction of this honourable court with intent to defraud did obtain the sum of N1,010,000 only from one Emmanuel Iheanyi Nwogu for the purchase of three cars placed on auction, under the pretence that you are Ibrahim Waziri, a Customs officer and marketing manager of auction sales of the Nigeria Customs Service, a pretext you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1 (1a) and (2) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act 2006 which is punishable un-der Section 1(3) of the same Act”. The prosecution counsel, Ramiah Ikhanade, asked for a date to review the fact of the case in view of the plea of the accused. Quadri ordered that the accused be remanded in prison custody and adjourned the matter to May 4.