A Customer Relations Manager with
the First Bank Plc headquarters, Kehinde Adewuyi, 36, has been arraigned before
a Lagos Magistrate Court for allegedly stealing N52,628,000 from his employer’s
account.
It would be recalled that a
businesswoman, Wuraola Folashade Oluloye, had also been arraigned for hacking a
First Bank Plc account and stealing a customer’s N16.2million.
Adewuyi was arrested by the
police at the Lion Building Division, Lagos, following a complaint by the
management of First Bank Plc through the Head of the Forensic Auditors, Solomon
Akhanolu, PM News reports.
The fraud was uncovered when
First Bank audited their account books.
The financial institution
reported the matter to the DPO in charge of Lion Building Division, who
deployed his team led by Inspector Chibuzor Okoro to arrest the accused.
Adewuyi, a resident of Onyema
Close, Madira Estate, Gbagada, Lagos, was charged before the Igbosere
Magistrate Court on a three-count charge of stealing.
Police Counsel, Reuben Solomon,
told the court in charge No H/28/2019 that the accused committed the alleged
crime with two others at large between February and March 2019 at First Bank
Plc headquarters, Lagos during working hours.
Solomon informed the court that
the accused forged the signatures of the Relationship Manager, Mobolaji Sunmoni
and the Group Head, Ademola Adegbusi, to fraudulently withdraw the money from
the account of his employers.
He said the offences, the accused
committed were punishable under section 411, 365 (1) and 287 (7) of the
Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
The accused, however, pleaded not
guilty to the alleged offence in the open court and Magistrate M. A. Davies
granted him bail in the sum of N250,000 with two sureties in like sum.
Davies adjourned the case till 25
June, 2019 for mention and ordered that the defendant be kept at the Ikoyi
Prison, Lagos till bail conditions are met.
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