Investor blamed for taking N27m from client's record

Bawa Momodu

| credits: EFCC

The Monetary and Budgetary Unlawful acts Commission has captured an investor, Bawa Momodu, for purportedly taking N27m from the record of a bank client.

It was accumulated that Sterling Bank Plc had appealed to the commission, affirming that Momodu, a previous representative of the bank, stole N27m from the record of one of its clients.

"The blamed supposedly produced the mark for the said record holder, and falsely withdrew the cash from the bank.

"Examinations further uncovered that the said sum was exchanged to the Sterling Financial balance of one Emilia Ugwandu, who is presently everywhere, in an offer to shroud the wellspring of the stolen reserves," EFCC representative, Wilson Uwujaren, said.

Momodu was charged before Equity I.E. Ekwo of the Government High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Waterways State, on 16 numbers verging on phony.

The charges read to some degree, "That you, Bawa Momodu, at the latest December 17, 2012, in Port Harcourt, inside of the ward of this noteworthy court, did present to authorities of Sterling Bank Plc a manufactured Sterling Bank Store Exchange archive No. 1238802 for Wear Kumy Wanders Nigeria Constrained, with the goal that Sterling Bank Plc may follow up on it as honest to goodness and along these lines submitted an offense in spite of Segment 1(2)(c) of the Various Offenses Act, Top M17, Modified Version, Law of the Organization of Nigeria, 2007, and culpable under Segment 1(2) of the same Demonstration."

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The charged argued not blameworthy.

Counsel for the EFCC, A. Olatunji, requested a date for the initiation of trial. On the other hand, the safeguard counsel, Allen Nwogwama, supplicated the court to concede his customer safeguard.

Equity Ekwo conceded the blamed to safeguard in the aggregate for N7m with one surety in like whole.

He said, "The surety must be a dependable individual from the general public with landed property worth the safeguard aggregate, to be checked by the court enlistment center and the arraignment.

"The denounced is likewise to be reporting at the EFCC office on the most recent day of each month."
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