The police anti-fraud unit stated this in a press statement signed by a Deputy Commissioner of Police, Salisu Fagge, a copy of which was made available to the Nigerian Tribune at the weekend, in Lagos, highlighting that the said error was allegedly discovered by the bank’s officials and regularised within 17 minutes of its occurrence.
Fagge, in the statement, said: “These clarifications have become necessary, following a petition by a customer of FirstBank Plc at a branch of the bank located within the campus of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Oyo State, one Durojaiye Job, to the Deputy Inspector General of Police, “D” Department (investigations) of the Force Criminal Investigations Department, Abuja and the Commissioner of Police in charge of the SFU, Mr Moses Ndagi, against two senior staff of the bank and at the branch, identified as Owumi Angela and Oguntowo Aderonke, both are the branch and operations managers the bank at the Polytechnic, Ibadan branch of the bank.
“The pettioner, said to be a student of the institution and with the savings account number 6893060001380, at a branch of the bank at the polytechnic, had, through his counsel, urged the police to investigate the two officials of the bank, over an alleged fraud and fraudulent transfer of the sum of N9,309,039, 869.19 involving his savings account at the branch of the bank at the institution in Ibadan, Oyo state at the aforementioned date.”
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