Saturday, 19 October 2013

ENUGU COMMAND OPERATIVES NABBS BANK FRAUD SYNDICATE



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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