EFCC arrests 2 bank managers, 4 others over N167.5m scam

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said on Monday that it had arrested two bank managers and four others in connection with a N167.5 million scam.

The spokesman for the commission, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, said this in a statement in Lagos.

He said four employees of an old generation bank were being held for allegedly stealing N5.1 million from a customer’s account.

According to him, the suspects conspired and issued an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) card to an accomplice in the name of a bank customer in Bayelsa.

“The man used the ATM to withdraw N5.1million from account.”

Uwujaren alleged that the manager gave out loans to himself using several names and accounts of some customers of the bank with whom he shared the money.

“The manager was arrested while trying to flee the country after the management of the bank detected the fraud.

“Disbursement of the loans showed that he granted a total sum of N57. 9 million to Onezh Oil and Gas Ltd, N11.3 million to Esubeb Staff Multipurpose Cooperative and N11.7 million to Ogochukwu Amanda.”

Uwujaren said the suspects, who were being interrogated at the Kano Zonal office of the EFCC, would soon be charged to court.