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Speaker 1: Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC has arraigned the staff

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of Ecobank Plc Solomon Stephen Ufio for cybercrime after the

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suspect made deposit into one of the bank customer’s account

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and later withdrew saying without the consent of the account holder.

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The suspect was arraigned before a Federal High Court sitting

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in Legos State last Friday with one count charge of

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alleged cybercrime of impersonating the account holder ognford on an

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homorwoommea jockey, in violation of Section twenty two two b

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I of the Cybercrime Prohibition and Prevention Etc. Act twenty

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fifteen and punishable by section twenty two two B of

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the same Act. The suspect pleaded guilty to the one

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count charge and was subsequently remanded to Akoe Prison or

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Correctional Center by the trial judge. Details have presented verbatim

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below as reported by the Public Relations Unit of EFCC,

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including the report of Justice Mohammad Mahner of the Borno

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State High Court sitting in Maidaguri convicting and sentencing a

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Chief Executive Officer CEO of a company Alhajibashir Tanko to

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twenty one years imprisonment for misappropriation of money paid into

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the company’s account by a petitioner who sought the CEO’s

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consent and used the convict company’s account to receive the

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money he was paid for an execution of contract. EFCC

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arraigns banker for alleged two point four million niras cybercrime

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in Lagos. The Lagos Sonal Directorate two of the Economic

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and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC OCOTMO, on Friday May sixteenth,

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twenty twenty five, arraigned one Solomon Stephen Ufaio, a staff

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of Ekobank Plc, on a one count charge bordering on

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alleged cybercrime to the tune of two million, four hundred

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and four thousand niras two million, four hundred and four

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thousand Nira, before Justice Yellenboggero of the Federal High Court

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sitting in Akoi, Lagos. The count reads that you, Solomon

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Stephen Eufaio, between the tenth to the twenty eighth day

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of March twenty twenty five, in Lagos, within the jurisdiction

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of this Honorable Court, while working for Ecobank Nigeria Limited,

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as a relief teller, fraudulently represented yourself as ognfordunnen Omawuma

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Jockey by posting false deposit and withdrawal tellers on her

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Eco Bank account number two billion, eight hundred and one million,

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eighty six thousand, two hundred and fifty nine with intent

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to gain advantage for yourself, and thereby committed an offense

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contrary to Section twenty two two b I of the

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Cyber Crime Prohibition and Prevention et Cetera Act, twenty fifteen

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and punishable by Section twenty two two B of the

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same Act. The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge when

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it was read to him. Following his guilty plea Prosecution

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Council Abdullah Midel Decur called on Day David in Gallet Gahea,

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an operative of the EFCC, to review the facts of

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the case. Gahaay told the court that u Fio, who

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is a relief teller with the bank, fraudulently represented himself

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as one mishmorable mere Jockey, a customer of the bank

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by posting false deposits into her Eco Bank account and

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moving the total sum of two niras four hundred and

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four thousand, which he filled out in withdrawal deposit slips

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without her consent and paid the same into his own

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no pay account. He further informed the court that the

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defendant provided an extra judicial statement and also issued a

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bank draft for two million, four hundred and four thousand

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niras as restitution to the petitioner. He identified the defendant’s

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extra judicial statement, copies of the bank slips the certified

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true copy of the bank draft for the restitution to

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the tune of two million, four hundred and four thousand niras.

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The prosecution council then sought to tender in evidence the documents,

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which were admitted and marked as exhibits by the court.

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The judge adjourned the case till June sixth, twenty twenty

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five for judgment and ordered the defendant to be remanded

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in the Ekoyee Correctional Center Court. Jail’s company CEO for

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thirty three point five million nairas fraud in Meidaguri, another

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arraigned for alleged five point six million nairas fraud. Justices

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Mohammad Maner of the Borno State High Court sitting in

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Meidaguri has convicted and sentenced one Alhaji Bashir Tanko to

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twenty one year’s imprisonment. Tanko was rearigned on November eighteenth,

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twenty twenty four, by the Meidaguri Zonal Directorate of the

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Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC on a one countermended

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charge bordering on criminal misappropriation to the tune of thirty

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three point five million nairas thirty three million and five

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hundred thousand naira. The charge reads that you Bashir Tanko Tahir,

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whilst being the Chief executive Officer and alter EGO of

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Sahil Building and Engineering Company Limited, a company registered in

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Nigeria and Sahil Building and Engineering Company Limited and Musa

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Omaru now at large, sometimes in twenty nineteen at Meidaguri,

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Borno State, within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, did

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dishonestly misappropriated the entire sum of thirty three million, five

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hundred thousandners thirty three million, five hundred thousand Narra out

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of thirty eight million, five hundred thousand nyers thirty eight million,

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five hundred thousand Nira being paid to your company account

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domiciled with Access Bank with account number two four three

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two post six five seven bearing Sarhiel Building Engineering Limited

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by a non governmental organization acted being the money belonging

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to one Anna Adam and thereby committed an offense contrary

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to section three hundred and eight of the Penal Code, Cap.

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One hundred and two, Laws of Borno, State of Nigeria

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and punishable under section three hundred and nine of the

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same law. The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge

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when it was read to him. In Council for the prosecution,

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Maktar Ali, Ahmed s Osaka, Farik Mohammad and Abdulmalik d

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Ali presented six witnesses and tended several documents as exhibits.

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In the course of the trial, Justice Meyner convicted and

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sentenced Tahir to one year imprisonment with an option of

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two hundred thousand nairas fine. The judge further ordered the

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convict to restitute the petitioner the sum of thirty three million,

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five hundred thousand nairas thirty three million, five hundred thousand

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or in default, to serve twenty years imprisonment. The convicts

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rode to the correctional center began when he dishonestly diverted

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money sent to his company account after the execution of

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a contract awarded to the petitioner who used the convict’s

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company in a related development. The Maidagurizonal Directorate of the

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e FCC, on Tuesday May twentieth, twenty twenty five, arraigned

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one Ibrahim Azami before Justice Aisha Kumulia of the Borno

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State High Court, Madeguri. The defendant was arraigned on a

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two count charge bordering on obtaining by false pretense to

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the tune of five niras six hundred thousand point zero

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five million, six hundred thousand Nira. The charge reads value

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Ibrahim Azami with National Identification number twelve billion, five hundred

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and eighty seven million, three hundred and ninety eight thousand,

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one hundred and fifty five sometimes in twenty twenty four

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at Meidaguri, Borno State, within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court,

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did obtain the gross sum of five million, six hundred

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thousand narras five million, six hundred thousand Nira belonging to

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Kellu Mohammad, which money was transferred from Modu Mouhammad account

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number to billion eighty five million, sixty one thousand, eight

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hundred and nineteen domiciled with Zenith Bank p l into

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your account two billion, eighty one million, eighty five thousand,

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two hundred and fifty three. Ibrahim Azamin domiciled with Zenith

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Bank purportedly as money for the purchase of land situated

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at Jerre Local Government with allocation number ZO eighty nine thousand,

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nine hundred and eighty three seventeenths which you knew to

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be false and thereby committed an offense contrary to unpunishable

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under section one one of the Advance Fee Fraud and

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Other four Related Offenses Act two thousand and six, and

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punishable under section one three of the same Act. The

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defendant pleaded not guilty to the charges when they were

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read to him. Thereafter, Prosecution Council ali U d Abdulmalik

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prayed for a trial date and to remand the defendant

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in a correctional center. Justice Kumulia thereafter adjourned till May

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twenty six, twenty twenty five, for hearing of bail and

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remand the defendant in Maida Guri Correctional Center. His journey

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to the correctional facility started when he received the sum

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of five point six million miers for the purchase of

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a plot of land situated at Jerra Local Government Area,

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which he did not buy one already bringing you Renie

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in a mortgage. Is mad