EFCC Drags Ecobank Employees To Courtroom Over Stunning ₦2.4 Million Cyber Fraud

The Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee, EFCC, Okotie-Eboh, on Friday, Might 16, 2025, arraigned one Solomon Stephen Ufayo, a employees of Ecobank Plc, on a one-count cost bordering on alleged cybercrime to the tune of N2,404,000(Two Million 4 Hundred and 4 Thousand Naira) earlier than Justice Yellim Bogoro of the Federal Excessive Courtroom sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos.

The rely reads: “That you simply, Solomon Stephen Ufayo, between the tenth to the twenty eighth day of March, 2025, in Lagos, inside the jurisdiction of this Honourable Courtroom, whereas working for Ecobank Nigeria Restricted as a Reduction Teller, fraudulently represented your self as Ogunfodunrin Omowunmi Ajoke, by posting false deposit and withdrawal tellers on her Ecobank account quantity 2801086259, with intent to achieve benefit for your self and thereby dedicated an offence opposite to Part 22(2)(b)(i) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition and Prevention and so on)Act, 2015 and punishable by Part 22(2)(b) of the identical Act.”

The defendant pleaded responsible to the cost when it was learn to him.

Following his responsible plea, prosecution counsel, Abdulhamid L.Tukur, known as on David Ngale Gajere, an operative of the EFCC, to overview the info of the case.

Gajere instructed the courtroom that Ufayo, who’s a Reduction Teller with the Financial institution, fraudulently represented himself as one Miss. Omowunmi Ajoke, a buyer of the Financial institution, by posting false deposits into her Ecobank account and transferring the entire sum of N2, 404,000, which he crammed out in withdrawal deposit slips with out her consent and paid the identical into his personal Opay account.

He additional knowledgeable the courtroom that the defendant offered an extra-judicial assertion and in addition issued a financial institution draft for N2,404,000 as restitution to the petitioner.

He recognized the defendant’s extra- judicial assertion, copies of the financial institution slips, the licensed true copy of the financial institution draft for the restitution to the tune of N2,404,000.

The prosecution counsel then sought to tender, in proof, the paperwork, which had been admitted and marked as displays by the courtroom.

The decide adjourned the case until June 6, 2025 for judgment and ordered the defendant to be remanded within the Ikoyi Correctional Centre.