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3 Ecobank employees docked for stealing N2.8m from customers’ accounts

By NAN
02 February 2016   |   2:23 pm
Three Ecobank employees were arraigned in Lagos on Tuesday for allegedly stealing N2.8 million from customers’ accounts. The accused persons - Oluwatoyin Adetunji (41), Oluwatosin Obademi (32) and Olushola Ogunshina (39) – are facing a three-count charge of conspiracy, forgery and stealing before a Tinubu Magistrates' Court in Lagos Island. The prosecutor, Insp. Nurudeen Thomas,…

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Three Ecobank employees were arraigned in Lagos on Tuesday for allegedly stealing N2.8 million from customers’ accounts.

The accused persons – Oluwatoyin Adetunji (41), Oluwatosin Obademi (32) and Olushola Ogunshina (39) – are facing a three-count charge of conspiracy, forgery and stealing before a Tinubu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos Island.

The prosecutor, Insp. Nurudeen Thomas, told the court that the accused persons between July 10 and 14, 2015, forged signatures of several Ecobank customers and stole the sum of N2.8million from their accounts at Iyan-Ipaja branch of the bank.

He said that Adetunji and Obademi, were cashiers while Ogunshina was Information Technology personnel at the bank.

According to the prosecutor, Obademi and Ogunshina claimed that the Adetunji came to them with the deal and promised to pay them N350,000 each.

Thomas, said that the offences contravene Sections 285, 361 and 409 of the Criminal Code of Lagos State, 2011.

The Chief Magistrate, Mrs K.B Ayeye, granted the accused persons bail in the sum of N200,000 with two sureties each in like sum, and adjourned the case to Feb. 22 for hearing

2 Comments

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    They also stole 889,000 in 1 day naira from my account. I took the bank them to court in USA because they claim it is my fault because it a fraud because I am careless. The judge was symphatetic to me and understand that Nigeria is a fraudulent country. However, he could not help me because ECOBANK do not have a structure in USA. I will post all the transitions on the internet in the future, and the amateur e-mail reply that i got from their IT division. Nigeria Banks workers are the worst criminals in Nigeria,

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    No wonder, all little boys working in the banking sector in Nigeria are all flashy. I was wondering how much they are paid that “their own don better”. Building estates, driving state of the art cars, pulling high class babes, living in luxurious houses and when you ask them, they will tell you their salary is small. Na God oooooo