By Jennifer Y Omiloli
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibadan Zonal Office, has captured one Olumide Agbabiaka, a sales agent with a new generation bank, for supposedly taking N137 million.
This was contained in a statement marked by the commission’s representative, Tony Orilade on Monday, September 16 in Ibadan, NAN reports.
Agbabiaka’s capture was because of a petition filed by the bank’s regional security officer and the cluster control and compliance manager.
Orilade said that the suspect allegedly suppressed, diverted and stole the money from a customer’s personal corporate account in Ibadan.
He said the suspect supposedly committed the offense between January 2017 and July.
He said the suspect, who was the account officer assigned to the client, had been visiting the business premises of the unfortunate victim week by week to gather money.
Orilade said the suspect was to deposit same to the client’s records domiciled in the bank’s Challenge branch.
He said the suspect, rather than depositing the cash at various occasions, remitted just a bit and on numerous occasion, diverted the entire sum to personal use.
“In order to cover its criminal acts, the suspect, according to the petition, would rather issue fictitious bank slips to deceive the customer that he truly deposited the sums.
“This continued until the customer reviewed the statement of his account and reconciled same with the cash collection register,” he said.
