The Edo State police command has arrested a former staff of Keystone Bank Plc, Ms Gift Igbinosun for allegedly defrauding John Nnamdi and Obasogie Osagieduwa of N14.950 million.
Spokesman for the command, Mr Chidi Nwabuzor, said in a statement that the 35-year-old suspect who was sacked by the bank 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 by operatives attached to the State Intelligence Bureau.
He said Igbinosun had paraded herself as a staff of the bank while defrauding her victims.
“The suspect paraded herself as a staff member of Keystone Bank and fraudulently obtained N7.35 million from Mr John Onuora Nnamdi. Also, the suspect paraded herself as a staff member of the same bank and fraudulently obtained N7.6 million 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 investigation had been concluded and the suspect would be charged to court.
The suspect did not deny the allegations. However, she said she was doing business with the duo but she could not fulfill her obligation to them at a certain point in time.
“Before now, I have been giving Nnamdi clean notes and he would give me a commission. But I couldn’t meet up any more, 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,” Igbinosun told journalists.
