By Freedom SunriseBy Bright Nwogu
An ex-employee of First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Oreoluwa Adesakin, convicted for stealing depositors’ N49 million and another $368,000 was on Monday sentenced to a cumulative 98 years in prison.
Adesakin was handed the prison term by Justice Muniru Olagunju of the Oyo State High Court for fraud.
The convict was said to have converted the said sums of money to her personal use.
The conviction followed her prosecution by the Ibadan Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on 14-count charges, bordering on stealing, forgery and fraudulent accounting.
One of the charges read: “That you Oreoluwa Adesakin sometime between the months of May, 2013 and November, 2013, at Ibadan within the Ibadan Judicial Division, whilst being a staff of First Bank PLC stole the sum of N25,974,116.13 (Twenty Five Million, Nine Hundred and Seventy Four Thousand, One Hundred and Sixteen Naira, Thirteen Kobo) from First Bank PLC MoneyGram Payment Naira Account, property of First bank PLC.”
A statement issued on Tuesday by EFCC Spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren said she pleaded not guilty to all the charges, which necessitated her trial.
According to Uwujaren, Prosecution counsel, Usman Murtala in arguing his case, presented every vital document and witnesses to nail the convict.
He said: “The judge noted that the EFCC amassed a pool of incontrovertible evidence against the convict and did a diligent investigation and prosecution. He pronounced Adesakin guilty of all the charges, sentencing her to seven years in prison without an option of fine on each of the 14 counts, which will run concurrently.
“Apart from the jail term, the convict is also to restitute the First Bank, through the EFCC, all the money she stole.
“The convict was arraigned April 4, 2014 by the EFCC following a conclusion of investigations against her which arose from a petition from her former employer, dated December 18, 2013.
“The bank alleged in the petition that Adesakin, as its Money Transfer Operator, saddled with the responsibility of effecting payments through Western Union Money Transfer and Money Gram platforms, fraudulently manipulated accounting and withdrew the total sums of N49,320,652.32 and another $368,203.00 for herself, which the bank only uncovered while reviewing its internal account.”
The anti-graft agency Spokesman further disclosed that the EFCC was also able to establish that the convict used part of the proceeds of her crime to acquire landed properties in different parts of Oyo State.
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