Friday, 27 December 2013
ACCOUNT OFFICER WITH GUARANTY TRUST HOME ARRESTED FOR FRAUD OF N50M
The
Special Fraud Unit, Ikoyi, Lagos State, has arrested an account officer with
Guaranty Trust Homes, Adeola Olokojobi, in connection with a N50m fraud at the
financial institution.
Prior
to his arrest, Olokojobi was said to be working at the GT Homes, Saka Tinubu
branch, Victoria Island.
PUNCH Metro gathered
that the SFU had received a petition in October 2013, from a customer of the
branch where Olokojobi worked. The customer had alleged that Olokojobi, who was
his account officer, had “not been forthcoming with his account balances.”
A
statement by the SFU Commissioner of Police, Mr. Tunde Ogunsakin, said, “The
petitioner also alleged that the balance given to him was at variance with his
actual balance in the account.
“An
internal investigation conducted by GT Homes into the account revealed that
Olokojobi in April 2013, forged an instruction, transferring N15m from the
petitioner’s account, to an unknown account.
“The
bank also discovered other various fraudulent withdrawals made by the account
officer from other customers’ accounts in his care through fake transfer
instructions. It amounted to over N50m.
“He
said the funds were used to finance his political campaign, a proposed pure
water company and purchase of an uncompleted building at Sango-Ota, Ogun State.
“Olokojobi
in his confessional statement said he had fraudulently withdrawn monies
amounting to N50,640,748 from the account of the customers by transferring
funds into the accounts of fictitious customers and subsequently withdrawing
same.”
A
banking and finance graduate, Olokojobi told PUNCH Metro that he joined GT
Homes in 2009.
He,
however, denied that he had fraudulently transferred over N50m, insisting that
instead, it was N27m.
He
said, “I didn’t have to forge the instructions from GT homes customers. All I
did was manipulate them. What happens is that they usually send instructions to
the account officers by email, requesting that some money be transferred to an
account of their choice. All I simply do is add another million or two to the
sum the customer requested.
“It
went unnoticed all this while because after using the money to do some business
transactions, I always paid it back. I was into several businesses; I would buy
land and resell for profit.
“I got
into trouble with this one because I withdrew N15m at once from a customer’s
account; I didn’t take it bit by bit, but I meant to pay it back. In fact, I
had already started doing so before I was caught and arrested. But the police
are not right in saying that the money I had withdrawn from customers amounted
to N50m; it is N27m.”
Punch
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