Banker In Court For Allegedly Funding Wife’s Bank Account With Stolen Money
LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-According to reports,one Emmanuel Ayegbusi,26 years of age,a banker working at an old generation bank, was allegedly arraigned before a Lagos Magistrate’s Court by the bank’s authorities after being found accountable for transferring N2,200,000 without legal procedures from his boss’s account.
The defendant was dragged to court for dubiously taking the money from the bank, depositing it into an account owned by his wife at another financial institution, and fleeing all of a sadden after the act.
Following the information gathered by security detectives,the secret crime came to the light when an inspection was carried out on the bank’s accounts.
However,as soon as this transpired, the complainant contacted the Area ‘A’ Command Assistant Commissioner of Police, ACP in charge of the Lion Building on Lagos Island,who subsequently ordered his men, under the leadership of Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP Raheem Buliaminu, to fish out the escapee.
Luckily,the police detectives were able to trail the accused and taken him into custody from the secret location where he hid himself in Lagos,after which he was charged to the Lagos Magistrate’s Court for prosecution on a two-count indictment,involving theft and conspiracy.
On the other hand,a police source simple identified as Okete Ejime testified before the court,saying that the accused perpetrated the act in the Ojodu, Lagos branch of the bank while it was open for business between the 4th and 11th of March 2022.
Ejime testified in front of the court that the defendant dubiously and deceptively took N2,200,000 from the account of his boss and sent it into the account of his wife, who was working in another bank entirely.
Furthermore,the police prosecutor noted that , the accused was guilty of offenses which violates sections 337 and 287(7) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, which was passed in 2015.
Meanwhile,the accused denied all charges leveled against him in court,which left the presiding judge,Magistrate B.A. Sonuga to release him on bail the amount of N500,000 with two guarantors in the same amount.
Decisively,Sonuga then postponed the next hearing of the case until Tuesday,17th January 2023 and issued a directive,requiring the accused to remain in police custody at the Ikoyi correctional facility until he fulfilled the requirements of his bail.
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