EFCC arraigns two bankers, others for alleged N20m theft

The Economic and Financial Crimes Rate on Monday arraigned two bankers, Freeman Austin Jacob and Umar Abdullahi and two others earlier than Justice Simon Akpah Amobeda of the Federal High Court, Kano on a 3 depend payment of conspiracy and stealing.

The varied two suspects are Ahmed Bashir and Abdulhakim Musa (aka Gandu).

The defendants allegedly conspired among themselves to way an ATM card within the name of 1 Alhaji Sani Muntari and extinct identical to steal the sum of N20,000,000 from his bank.

The defendants perpetrated the fraud by the utilization of the SIM card of the story holder which turned into stolen by Bashir, the third defendant, to way an ATM card with the wait on of the main and second defendants.

Investigation traced among the proceeds of the theft to the bank story of the fourth defendant, Abdulkarim Musa, friend to the third defendant, Ahmed Bashir.

Your entire defendants pleaded not guilty after listening to the payment.

Counsel for the prosecution, Aisha Tahar Habib requested that the defendants be remanded and entreated the courtroom to repair a date for the graduation of trial.

Counsel representing the first and 2nd defendants made an oral bail utility on behalf of his purchasers which turned into antagonistic by the prosecution counsel on the grounds that the utility must always formal.

L.A Umar, who represented the 4th defendant knowledgeable that she intends to file a formal bail utility and therefore prayed the courtroom for a date to create identical and support the prosecution.

After listening to the submissions of the parties, Justice Amobeda agreed with the prosecution that bail purposes have to be made formally as the courtroom is a courtroom of story.

He therefore remanded the defendant and adjourned the topic unless June 26, 2023 for listening to of bail purposes and graduation of trial.