A contract staff of Diamond Bank Plc , Eniola
Morondiya, alleged to have colluded with four
suspected fraudusters , Suleiman Haruna Muhammad ,
Ibrahim Danazumi, Rolaand Aroko and Francis
Akpabio, to hack into the bank ’s website to swindle
the bank of N241 million, have been arraigned before
a Federal High Court in Lagos, southwest Nigeria.
In a six -count criminal charge number FHC /
L/176C /2015 filed before the court alongside the
statements of the accused persons by the
prosecuting counsel from the office of the Attorney
General of the Federation, Mr E . K . Ugwu , it was
alleged that Eniola Morondiya , a contract staff and a
Teller with Diamond Bank Plc , conspired at a hotel in
Maryland, Ikeja, Lagos , with Suleiman Haruna
Mohammed , Ibrahim Danazumi , Roland Aroko ,
Francis Akpabio and others at large to fraudulently
transfer the sum of N 241 million from two separate
accounts with number 000251140 and 0002518551 in
Diamond Bank Plc , to several other accounts.
According to the six- count criminal charge filed
before the court against the five accused persons ,
the fraud was successfully carried out by the
accused persons when Eniola Morondiya was
provided with key logger ( grabber ) by the accused
persons , one of them being Suleiman Haruna
Mohammed , her boyfriend , which she plugged into
her computer system in the bank for two consecutive
days.
During this period, it was alleged that the key logger
copied the bank’ s website , the Customer Service
Manager ’s identity and password as well as Eniola
Morondiya’ s password and identity.
Using these strategic intelligence information the
accused harvested credentials from the key logger to
authorise the fraudulent transfer of the sum of N241
milion from Diamond Bank account numbers
000251140 and 0002518551 and later to other
different banks and accounts from where substantial
amounts of the money was moved to their agents.
In count four and five of the criminal charge Eniola
Morondiya was arraigned for fraudulently directly
posting and transferring N 241 milion from Diamond
Bank Plc accounts to several accounts initialy, as
first layer beneficiaries and from there to other
different banks and accounts, from where substantial
amounts of the money was moved through the
agents of the fraud syndicate to the syndicate
members who were supposed to know that the
money is a proceed of fraud.
In count six the fifth accused Francis Akpabio was
arraigned for receiving from Eniola Morondiya the
sum of N27 , 500, 000 transferred to his company
account Edokolori Oil Ventures from where same day
N7 million was transferred to an account in Ecobank
and Akpabio withdrew the sum of N3 million and
equally transferred the sum of N 2, 100, 000 and
retained the sum of N 15 million.
The offences alleged to have been committed by the
accused persons are contrary to and punishable
under sections 15 , 17, and 18a of the Money
Laundering Act.
All the accused persons who are currently on bail
pleaded not guilty to all the criminal charges.
Consequently , the presiding Judge , Okon Abang ,
adjourned the matter till 18 November , 2015 when
the trial of the accused persons will Commerce.
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