EFCC ARRAIGNS FORMER BANKER OVER ALLEGED N124MILLION

He was arraigned following a petition from a Regional Compliance Head and Compliance Officer of one of the new generation banks (name withheld) alleging that the defendant, Adejare Sonde   whilst still a staff of the bank and also an account office of a Microfinance bank  (name withheld) suppressed and diverted the sum of N124,000,000.00 property of the Microfinance bank.

 The petitioner explained that Adejare as account officer of the customer allegedly collected cash from the Microfinance bank on several occasions totaling N124Million which were not credited into the customer’s account, while further investigations revealed that the defendant allegedly doctored emails which he sent to the microfinance bank as monthly statements of account meanwhile there was no remit in the account.

One of the charge reads: Adejare Sonde between March 2015 and February 2017 whilst a staff of FCMB PLC and the account officer of UNAAB Microfiance Bank Ltd Account No: 0725813014 domiciled at the UNAAB main campus branch of FUMB, Abeokuta, within the Abeokuta Judicial Division stole the sum of N54, 000,000.00 (Fifty Four Million Naira) only property the 1st of July, 2016  whilst a staff of FCMB PLC and the account officer of UNAAB Microfinance Bank Ltd Account No: 0725813014 domiciled at the UNAAB main campus branch of FUMB, Abeokuta, within the Abeokuta Judicial Division stole the sum of N40,002,100.00 ( Forty Million, Two Thousand One Hundred Naira) only property of UNAAB Microfinance Bank Ltd.

 Justice Akinyemi however, granted the defense prayer and ordered that the defendant be remanded in EFCC’s custody pending hearing of bail application, and the case was adjourned to Friday February hearing of bail application.16, 2018 for trial