The Enugu Zonal Command of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee, EFCC, on Tuesday, March 12, 2024 arraigned three former Workers of Entry Financial institution and one different for allegedly stealing N15, 944,100 from the financial institution.
The suspects, Ogbu Kingsley Ibekwem, Nwagbara Chidimma, Uwaezuoke Raymond and Chidubem Angela Mgbeke had been mentioned to have pilfered the mentioned quantity earlier than it was evacuated to the bullion unit of the financial institution for subsequent motion to the Central Financial institution.
In a press release by the EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale on Tuesday, the suspects had been handed over to the anti-graft company by the Nottidge department of the financial institution in Onitsha, Anambra State.
The suspects who appeared earlier than Justice Mohammed Garba Umar of the Federal Excessive Court docket in Enugu State, had been arraigned on a four-count cost bordering on conspiracy and stealing.
One of many counts reads: “That you just, Ogbu Kingsley Ibekwe and Chidubem Angela Mgbeke generally in January 2023 in Onitsha, Anambra State throughout the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court docket did conspire amongst yourselves to commit felony to wit, retaining the sum of N7, 996, 800. 00 ( seven million, 9 hundred and ninety-six thousand, eight hundred naira) meant for evacuation to the Central Financial institution of Nigeria and property of Entry Financial institution Plc Nottidge Department, Onitsha which you knew or should have recognized to be proceeds of an illegal act and thereby dedicated an offence opposite to Part 21 (a) of the Cash Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act 2022 and punishable beneath Part 20 (b).”
They pleaded “not responsible” when the fees had been learn to them. In view of their pleas, counsel to the EFCC, Ahmad Yusuf Abdullahi, requested the court docket for a trial date and for the defendants to be remanded at Enugu State correctional facility.
Justice Umar thereafter adjourned the matter till Might 22, 2024 for trial. The defendants had been remanded on the EFCC custody pending the listening to of their bail utility.
