EFCC Arraigns Diamond Bank staff, Others Over N240m Fraud

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday arraigned a contract staff with Diamond Bank Plc, Eniola Morondiya, and four others before a Federal High Court in Lagos over an alleged N240 million fraud.

Others arraigned along the banker on a six-count-charge of fraud, stealing, forgery and conspiracy to defraud Diamond Bank were, Suleiman Mohammed, Ibrahim Danazumi, Roland Aroko, and Francis Akpabio.

According to the EFCC counsel, E. K. Ugwu, the first accused person, Morondiya, a contract staff of the bank, allegedly conspired with other accused persons, to use a key logger to copy sensitive materials from the bank’s computer with a view to getting access to some accounts.

He also alleged that they transferred the said funds from two accounts of the bank to multiple accounts which were later traced.

All the accused persons pleaded not guilty to the charges.

The trial judge, Justice Okon Abang, granted bail to the accused persons in the sum of fifty million naira with two sureties in the sum of twenty five million naira each.

The judge also ordered that, one of the sureties must be a civil servant in the Federal Civil Services on Grade level 12 and above, with a three-year tax clearance certificate, while the other surety must be owners of landed property in Ikoyi, Lekki Phase 1 or Victoria Island, Lagos.