Eagle eyed bank officials attached to Zenith bank and Access
have been able to expose bank officials who work with a syndicate in defrauding
banks.
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC, yesterday, arrested the duo of Kato Ifrahimu Nyam and Godwin
Odali, both staff of a new generation bank for conspiring to defraud the
bank to the tune of N3.6bn with an e-payment mandate purportedly from Federal
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The EFCC image maker, Wilson Uwujaren, said that the
suspects, who operate as syndicate, sometime in June 2015, through their
cronies submitted an e-payment mandate of N1.4bn to Zenith bank and Access bank
Plc.
Uwujaren said: “The banks, sensing a foul play after
noticing some abnormalities on the e-payment mandate discreetly contacted the
Ministry of Agriculture for confirmation and authentication of the document. A
response from the Ministry showed that, no mandate was sent to the banks. Hence, the
EFCC was contacted for investigation.”
Uwujaren said that while the investigation was
underway, the suspects in furtherance of their dubious acts submitted another
e-payment mandate of N1.398bn to Zenith bank, Abuja branch though one Abiola
Oloko, an accomplice.
In the process, Oloko was arrested by EFCC operatives.
“On arrest, Oloko confessed that, they’ve had several
meetings to arrange and perfect ‘the deal.’ Oloko, who
claimed to be a job seeker said, he was lured into the business by the bank
officials whom he claimed gave him an identity card of the Federal Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development to answer the false name “Femi Babatunde”,
but with his real passport photograph affixed to it.”
Uwujaren said that the suspects would soon be
arraigned in court as soon as investigation into the matter is concluded.
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