A 47-year-old cashier with Iludun-Oro Micro Finance Bank in Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State, has been arraigned before an Ilorin Magistrates’ Court for allegedly defrauding the bank of N4 million.
The accused, Mrs. Dupe Abolarin, was arrested and taken to court when she was reported to the police by the management of the Micro Finance Bank.
Until the incident, she was a cashier at the Isanlu- Isin branch of the bank in Isin Local Government Area of the state. In the case file number MCIA/840C/2016, the accused, who hails from Eruku in Ekiti Local Government Area of the state, was accused of criminal breach of trust.
The accused, who was said to have confessed during interrogation at the State Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Ilorin, to have committed the offence, had also agreed to pay back in instalment.
It was learnt that the bank had lodged a complaint against Abolarin on December 1, 2016, and that the accused had confessed to the commission of the offence.
Police First Information Report (FIR) reads: “That Mrs. Abolarin was posted to Isanlu-Isin branch as officer in charge of cash centre; that she defrauded the bank and customers to the tune of N4,089,267. After verification, it was discovered that there was no remittance of the said amount of money into the bank’s coffers which she acknowledged.
“That in the course of investigation at the State Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Department, Ilorin, Kwara State capital, she made a confessional statement agreeing to have committed the offence.”
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