The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has nabbed a banker, Awulu Friday Ayegba, for stealing N14.8 million from a customer’s account.
Ayegba, who worked as a manager with a new generation bank, used fake identities and documents to withdraw the money from an account of one of the customers of the bank between June 7 and July 21, 2023.
According to a statement issued by the EFCC’s spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, on Thursday, October 19, the banker impersonated two persons, Henry Olowo and Terseer Shibiam and used their forged passport photographs, national identification number and phone numbers to open bank accounts with two company names; Sulib Complex & Investments and Seamless & More Global.
However, these company names were not registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC.
The EFCC’s intelligence also uncovered that the banker forged the documents of one Nduka Obinna to apply for a loan of N40 million from the bank.
He intended to flee abroad with his family after obtaining the loan.
