A former staff member of Keystone Bank, Gift Igbinosun, 35, has been arrested by the police in Edo State for allegedly defrauding John Nnamdi and Obasogie Osagieduwa of over N14.9m.
The police spokesperson in the state, Chidi Nwabuzor, said the suspect, who was sacked by her employer, two years ago, defrauded the victims under the pretence of helping them to get new notes.
He said the suspect was arrested on July 20, 2023 by operatives attached to the State Intelligence Bureau while acting on a complaint of alleged impersonation, conspiracy, advance fee fraud, obtaining money by false pretence, fraudulent conversion and stealing reported by the victims.
He said, “The suspect paraded herself as a staff member of Keystone Bank and fraudulently obtained N7.35m from Mr John Onuora Nnamdi. Also, the suspect paraded herself as a staff member of the same bank and fraudulently obtained N7.6m from Mr Obasogie Osagieduwa.
“They gave her the money with the hope that as she was collecting the money, she would replace them with new notes, not knowing that she was no longer working with the bank.”
Nwabuzor said investigations had been concluded, and the suspect would be arraigned.
The suspect said in a chat with journalists that: “Before now, I have been giving Nnamdi clean notes, and he would give me a commission. But I couldn’t meet up anymore; so I owed him. The second person, Henry, I couldn’t give him any mint, but I returned N2.5m to him, remaining the balance of N5.1m. This has been going on for some months now. I was sacked by the bank about two years ago.”
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