THIEVES : Two FCMB Workers Arrested After Stealing N13.5m From Bullion van

Two workers with the First
City Monument Bank Plc,
Adeyemi Adebayo, 32, and
Ogundare Julius, 46, have
been arraigned before an
Ebute-Meta Magistrate’s
court for allegedly stealing
€50,000 belonging to the
bank, Punch reports.
The men were asked to
transport the money in a
bullion van from the bank’s
headquarters at Marina,
Lagos, to a branch of FCMB
at Adetokunbo Ademola,
Lagos Island.
Adebayo, the cash transit
officer, allegedly connived
with Julius, the bullion
driver, to divert the money
to an agreed place.
The matter was said to have
been reported at the police
station when the bank
officers at the receiving
branch did not see the
funds.
They were subsequently
arrested and arraigned on
Tuesday on four counts of
conspiracy and stealing.
The charges reads in part,
“That you, Adeyemi
Adebayo and Ogundare
Julius, on December 31,
2013, at First City
Monument Bank Plc
Headquarters, Marina, Lagos,
in the Lagos Magisterial
District did conspire
between yourselves to
commit felony to wit:
Stealing.
“That you being the cash
transit officer and bullion
driver respectively to First
City Monument Bank Plc,
Marina in the aforesaid
magisterial district, did steal
the sum of €50,000,
property of FCMB.”
The police prosecutor,
Inspector George Nwosu,
who stood in for the
resident prosecutor, ASP
Etim Ekankuk, said the
offences were punishable
under sections 409, 18, 72,
285 of the Criminal Law of
Lagos State, Nigeria 2011.
The defendants said they
were not guilty and elected
summary trial.
The defence counsel, Ola
Ogunbiyi and Lekan Ayinla,
asked for the defendants
bail in liberal terms.
The magistrate, Mrs Demi
Ajayi, admitted the
defendants to bail in the
sum of N1m each with two
sureties in like sum.

Posted: at 30-01-2014 02:25 PM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Imagine dat...every body eye dey chook for this country...I tire for Nigeria ur country

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Posted: at 30-01-2014 06:22 PM (10 years ago) | Hero