00:00Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arraigned a staff of ECOBank PLC, Solomon Stephen Ufio for cybercrime after the suspect made deposit into one of the bank customer's account and later withdrew same without the consent of the account holder.
00:16The suspect was arraigned before a federal high court sitting in Lagos State last Friday with one count charge of alleged cybercrime of impersonating the account holder, Ogunfordun and Omawunmi Ajoke in violation of section 22, 2, B, I, of the Cybercrime, Prohibition and Prevention etc. Act, 2015 and punishable by section 22, 2, B, of the same Act.
00:42The suspect pleaded guilty to the one count charge and was subsequently remanded to a COI prison or correctional center by the trial judge.
00:50Details are presented verbatim below as reported by the Public Relations Unit of EFCC including the report of Justice Mohamed Maynard of the Borno State High Court, sitting in Madaguri, convicting and sentencing a chief executive officer, CEO of a company, Alhaji Bashir Tanko to 21 years imprisonment for misappropriation of money paid into the company's account by a petitioner who sought the CEO's consent and used the convict company's account to receive the money.
01:19the money he was paid for an execution of contract.
01:24The money he arraigns banker for alleged 2.4 million nairas cybercrime in Lagos.
01:29The Lagos Zonal Directorate II of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Okoteebo, on Friday May 16, 2025, arraigned one Solomon Stephen Ufio, a staff of Ecobank PLC, on a one count charge bordering on alleged cybercrime to the tune of 2 million 4 hundred and 4 thousand nairas.
01:512 million 4 hundred and 4 thousand naira, before Justice Yellam Bogoro of the Federal High Court sitting in Okoye, Lagos.
02:00The count reads, that you, Solomon Stephen Ufio, between the 10th to the 28th day of March, 2025, in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, while working for Ecobank Nigeria Ltd as a relief teller,
02:17fraudulently represented yourself as Ogun Fadunran Omawunmi Ajoke, by posting false deposit and withdrawal tellers on her Ecobank account number, 2 billion 801 million 86 thousand 259, with intent to gain advantage for yourself and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 22, 2, B, I, of the Cybercrime, Prohibition and Prevention Etc. Act, 2015 and punishable by Section 22, 2, B, I, of the Cybercrime, Prohibition and Prevention Etc. Act, 2015.
02:44and punishable by Section 22, 2, B, of the same Act.
02:49The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge when it was read to him.
02:53Following his guilty plea, Prosecution Counsel, Abdulhamid El-Takur, called on David Ingale Gahere, an operative of the EFCC, to review the facts of the case.
03:05Gahere told the court that Ufiyo, who is a relief teller with the bank, fraudulently represented himself as one Miss Omawunmi Ajoke, a customer of the bank, by posting false deposits into her Ecobank account and moving the total sum of 2 nairas, 400 and 4 thousand, which he filled out in withdrawal deposit slips without her consent and paid the same into his own Opay account.
03:30He further informed the court that the defendant provided an extrajudicial statement and also issued a bank draft for 2,404,000 nairas as restitution to the petitioner.
03:42He identified the defendant's extrajudicial statement, copies of the bank slips, the certified true copy of the bank draft for the restitution to the tune of 2,404,000 nairas.
03:55The prosecution counsel then sought to tender, in evidence, the documents, which were admitted and marked as exhibits by the court.
04:04The judge adjourned the case till June 6, 2025, for judgment and ordered the defendant to be remanded in the Okoyi Correctional Center.
04:13Court jails company CEO for 33.5 million nairas fraud in Madaguri, another arraigned for alleged 5.6 million nairas fraud.
04:23Justices Muhammad Maynard of the Borno State High Court, sitting in Madaguri, has convicted and sentenced one Al-Hajji Bashir Tanko to 20.1 years imprisonment.
04:34Tanko was rearranged on November 18, 2024 by the Madaguri Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a one-count amended charge bordering on criminal misappropriation to the tune of 33.5 million nairas, 33,500,000 naira.
04:55The charge reads, that you, Bashir Tanko Tahir whilst being the Chief Executive Officer and alter ego of Sahil Building and Engineering Company Limited,
05:06a company registered in Nigeria and Sahil Building and Engineering Company Limited and Musa Umaru, now at large, sometimes in 2019 at Madaguri,
05:15Borno State within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, did dishonestly misappropriated the entire sum of 33,500,000 nairas,
05:2533,500,000 naira, out of 38,500,000 nairas, 38,500,000 naira, being paid to your company account domiciled with Access Bank with account number
05:400024320657 Bering Sahil Building and Engineering Limited, by a non-governmental organization, acted, being the money belonging to one Anna Adam
05:52and thereby committed an offense contrary to Section 308 of the Penal Code Cap 102 Laws of Borno State of Nigeria and punishable under Section 309 of the same law.
06:04The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge when it was read to him and counsel for the prosecution,
06:10Mukhtar Ali Ahmed, S.O. Saka, Farrakh Muhammad and Abdulmalik D.
06:16Aliou presented six witnesses and tended several documents as exhibits in the course of the trial.
06:22Justice Maynard convicted and sentenced Tahir to one-year imprisonment with an option of 200,000 nairas fine.
06:29The judge further ordered the convict to restitute the petitioner the sum of 33,500,000 nairas,
06:3733,500,000, or in default to serve 20 years imprisonment.
06:43The convict's road to the correctional center began when he dishonestly diverted monies sent to his company account
06:49after the execution of a contract awarded to the petitioner who used the convict's company.
06:54In a related development, the Mediguri Zonal Directorate of the EFCC,
07:00on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, arraigned one Ibrahim Azami before Justice Aisha Kumalia of the Borno State High Court, Mediguri.
07:09The defendant was arraigned on a two-count charge bordering on obtaining by false pretense to the tune of five nairas,
07:15600,000.00, 5,600,000 naira.
07:21The charge reads,
07:23that you, Ibrahim Azami with national identification number 12,587,398,155,
07:34sometimes in 2024 at Mediguri,
07:37Borno State within the jurisdiction of this honorable court,
07:40did obtain the gross sum of 5,600,000 nairas,
07:455,600,000 naira,
07:47belonging to Kelu Mohamed which money was transferred from Modu Mohamed account number,
07:532,085,061,819 domiciled with Zenith Bank PLC into your account,
08:012,081,085,253 Ibrahim Azami domiciled with Zenith Bank purportedly as money for the purchase of land
08:12situated at Geray local government with allocation number 0,89,983,17th which you knew to be false
08:21and thereby committed an offense contrary to unpunishable under section 1,1,
08:26of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offenses Act 2006
08:31and punishable under section 1,3, of the same act.
08:36The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charges when they were read to him.
08:40Thereafter, Prosecution Counsel, Aliud Abdullmalik prayed for a trial date
08:46and to remand the defendant in a correctional center.
08:49Justice Kumalia thereafter adjourned till May 26, 2025 for hearing of bail
08:55and remand the defendant in Medaguri Correctional Center.
08:59His journey to the correctional facility started when he received the sum of 5,600,000 nairas
09:05for the purchase of a plot of land situated at Geray local government area which he did not buy.
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