The Enugu state command of the Nigeria police Force
through its operatives of the state criminal investigation Department
have nabbed two notorious syndicate that specializes in Bank fraud
ranging from rapid transfer of money from banks to another bank amongst other
nefarious activities.
To them such is a way of life and money making in a
quickest way. It was gathered that a case of bank fraud to the tune of three
hundred and eighteen million naira was allegedly reported to the command
by a new generation bank based in Enugu on 11/9/9/13 on the ground that
there was rapid transfer of money in the bank without authorization and which
the bank can no longer construe and based on the report, investigations
commenced in full scale which however led to the arrest of one Chike Himalayais
from Ezinihite Mbaise in Imo state and a staff of the bank at Abani road Enugu
branch. He is a marketer of the branch and also doubles as an internet
facilities assistant to the bank and the one that linked up with other
associates of bank fraud syndicate by sending out configured laptops containing
the banks vital information to associates.
According to him,he spies an account
in the bank that has huge amount of money and supplies information to his
cohorts who will now strike by using their laptops or any other internet device
at any branch of the bank or any other bank at any place using the bank pin
code which he has already given out to his associates. Also arrested is one
Kingsley Ezeibieli from NNobi in Anambra state and a staff of the bank at olu
obasanjo road in portharcourt and a stunch syndicate who revealed that he has
been in the illicit business of the bank fraud and just came out from the
prison remand home where he was remanded for the bank fraud related issue to
the tune of several millions of naira.He however mentioned his associates who
are still on the run. He is also a cashier in the bank and work hand in hand
with syndicates by giving out vital information of the bank's network through
which his associates bank fraudsters accesses money transferred to the bank
from other banks. They are now helping the operatives in their investigations
as they have further revealed that many banks have been defrauded through this
process. (POLICE PR)
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