A Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) worker has been arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing N8,449,000 from two customers’ accounts.
Abidemi Wasiu, who works with GTB, Oshogbo branch in Osun State, was arraigned before Magistrate. O. O. Owunmi on Wednesday.
The Nation learnt that the defendant was arrested by officers from the Bar Beach Police Division, following a complaint from the bank’s headquarters on Victoria Island, Lagos.
Prosecuting Sergeant Friday Mameh alleged that the defendant committed the offences between November and last month at the bank’s Lagos headquarters.
Mameh said the defendant, without authority, unlawfully withdrew N4,000,000 from the account of Ogunmade Victoria and N4,449,000.00 from the account of Olalekan Abiola.
Wasiu allegedly transferred the N8,449,000 to the accounts of his friends, Ojeleye Tawakalitu and Wisdom Marshal Njoku, from where he withdrew all the money and shared it with them.
According to Mameh, the offences contravene Sections 411, 337(a) and 287(7) of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2015.
Wasiu pleaded not guilty.
Magistrate Owunmi granted him N1million bail with two sureties in the like sum.
Owunmi directed the sureties to deposit N200,000 each with the court’s registrar He adjourned till June 6.
