An Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos Wednesday sentenced a bank cashier, David Anibolu, to four years’ imprisonment for stealing N9, 308,000 from a customer’s First Bank of Nigeria (FBN) Plc account.
Chief Magistrate A. O. Awogboro convicted him of stealing. Before
sentencing, the convict’s counsel Philips Onyama made an allocutus for
his client and pleaded for a sentence of a fine, or a lenient jail
term.
“He’s a first time offender; he has no father, only a sick
mother who relies on him to survive. He has been in custody since March
24, 2014 and has suffered emotional and physical torture. He is also now
more sober and refined,” Onyama added.
Pronouncing judgment, Chief Magistrate Awogboro sentenced Anibolu
to four years in prison. Anibolu, 26, committed the offences on March
22, 2014, at FBN Alaba 2 branch in Ojo.
He fraudulently changed a customer’s identity and mandate card
which enabled him to debit the said account of the sum N9 million and
transferred it into various accounts.
A forensic auditor attached to the bank, Solomon Akhanolu, was able
to link the fraud to Anibolu through the password he used to change the
customer’s identity and mandate card.
According to Anibolu’s confessional statement, his accomplices, who
are still at large, promised him N4m as his share of the fraud, but
they disappeared with the money and gave him nothing.
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