A former Relationship Manager with Guaranty Trust Bank in Enugu, Onyekachi Nwosu, charged with forgery, has been arrested and jailed because of forged document found in his document.
Nwosu who is altering and giving a loan with defective collateral was on Thursday sentenced to Eighteen (18) years imprisonment.
Justice D.V Agishi of the Federal High Court, Enugu handed Nwosu the sentence on a six (6) amended count charge brought against him by the Enugu Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
A statement issued by the Acting Head, Media and Publicity of the EFCC, Tony Orilade said Justice Agishi, in her judgement, ruled that the prosecution team led by Mashal Umukoro Onome Esq. proved their case beyond reasonable doubt and that the convict had failed to extricate himself from the self-evidenced proofs before the court.
According to the statement, EFCC, in the course of trial, called eight witnesses and tendered several exhibits to prove the Forged Documents is not just an accusation.
“The convict was found guilty on all six-count charge and sentenced accordingly. On count one and two, he was sentenced to five; while he is to serve two years each on counts three, four, five and six. The cumulative eighteen years prison terms will, however, run concurrently,” the statement read briefly.
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“Investigation by EFCC revealed several professional misconduct by Nwosu (ex-banker) who took undue advantage of his position as a senior bank supervisor and account officer to forge a document titled ‘Letter of Set-Off’ which he used to illegally grant a loan of N34,900,000 (Thirty Four Million, Nine Hundred Thousand Naira) to a customer and his company from several fixed deposits of other customers without their knowledge or consent.
“He was also discovered to have altered several account documents ( forged document) of his friend whom he illegally granted loan as to enhance his Visa application to United Kingdom.”
recently, a customer care officer of a first generation bank, which was attacked by armed robbers last Saturday, Larry Ehizo, has stated that he began planning how to carry out the operation in October 2019.
Ehizo, who recanted his earlier claim that a barman, Ernest Ewim, blackmailed him into carrying out the attempted heist, said he started nursing the idea having monitored the security system and the processes in the bank.
The customer care officer said, “Everything Ewim said is true; he didn’t threaten me. I willingly collected his number and I called him and he said I should give him a few days.
“When I called him, I simply told him how they would go in, where they would see the riot policeman guarding the bank and how to disconnect the CCTV. On Friday night during our meeting, we had issues with getting a driver.”
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