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Uneasy calm pervades the Marina, Lagos State corporate head office of the Evelyn Oputu led Bank Of Industry (BOI).
Information pieced by SHOWBIZPLUS revealed that the
Head, Credit and Marketing Department of the financial institution's Micro
Finance Bank, Nwachukwu Isidore, has been arraigned before a Tinubu
Magistrate’s Court for allegedly stealing N4.3m from the accounts of 22
customers.
The 35-year-old worker was said to have committed the “systemic fraud” from September 16, 2010 to May 14, 2012.
The police said the incident happened at the head office of the bank on Marina Street, Lagos Island area of Lagos.
Isidore allegedly stole the money in collusion with some other workers of the bank who were at large.
The
investigating police officer, Sergeant Elegbede Oluranti of the Lion
Building Police Division, Lagos Island, stated in the 23 counts
preferred against the suspect that Isidore and his accomplices also
“unlawfully renewed loan facilities of eleven bank customers’ accounts
with intent to defraud the bank.”
The
charges further read “That you, Nwachukwu Isidore, between September
16, 2010 and May 14, 2012 during the working hour, at Bank of Industry
Micro-Finance Bank at 23 Marina Street, Lagos Island in the Lagos
Magisterial District did conspire with others
now at large to commit felony to wit: stealing.
“That
you on May 14, 2010 during the working hour did steal the sum of
N150,000 from account number 1198 property of Bank of Industry Micro
Finance.”
The
police prosecutor, Inspector I. Okeke, said the offence was punishable
under sections 409, 333 and 285 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State,
Nigeria, 2011.
The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charges and elected summary trial.
The Magistrate, Mrs Y.R Pinheiro, admitted him to bail in the sum of N500,000 with two sureties each in like sum.
The matter was adjourned till January 24, 2014.
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