Emmanuel Ayegbusi, a 26-year-old employee of an old generation bank, has been brought before a Lagos Magistrate’s Court by the management of the bank for allegedly taking N2,200,000 without permission from his employer’s account.
The accused was accused of taking the cash out of the bank, transferring it to his wife’s account at a different institution, and then running away.
According to the police, the bank uncovered the fraud when it audited its account.
According to the police, the complainant petitioned Area ‘A’ Command Assistant Commissioner of Police ACP in charge of the Lion Building on Lagos Island after this development, and he ordered his men, under the direction of ASP Raheem Buliaminu, to find the accused.
The police tracked the accused and arrested him at hide out in Lagos and charged him before a Lagos Magistrate’s Court on a two-count charge bordering on conspiracy and stealing.
Police Counsel, Okete Ejime informed the court in the charge marked B/47/2022 that the defendant committed the offence between 4 and 11 March 2022 in Ojodu, Lagos branch of the bank during working hours.
Ejime told the court that the defendant fraudulently withdrew the N2,200,000 from his employer’s account and transferred it into his wife’s account domiciled in another bank and escaped before he was arrested.
He said the offences, the defendant committed were punishable under sessions 337 and 287(7) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges and Magistrate B.A. Sonuga granted him N500,000 bail with two sureties in like sum.
Sonuga adjourned the case till 17 January, 2023 for mention and ordered that the defendant be detained at the Ikoyi correctional facility till he perfected this bail conditions.
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