Bankers Arrested For Defrauding Customers Of N150m

Three bankers have been arrested by the police for allegedly hacking into the bank accounts of customers and diverting a total sum of N150m.

The bankers- Oyelade Shola-Isaac, 32, Osuolale Hammid, 40, and Akeem Adesina, 33 – were apprehended along with eight other suspects in connection with the fraud.

Three of the accomplices, Okpetu John, 29; Chukwumnoso Ifeanyi, 30; and Salako Abdulsalam were said to be MTN agents, while others were identified as Ismaeel Salami, 49; Akinola Oghuan, 34; Sarumi Abubakar, 32; James Idagu, 56; and 33-year-old Sunday Okeke.

Punch Metro learnt that five of the suspects, including the kingpin, Salami, were rounded up by operatives of the Special Fraud Unit of the Nigeria Police Force at an eatery in the Bode Thomas area of the state.


About 32 Automated Teller Machine cards belonging to the victims were reportedly recovered from Salami’s car.

They were said to have led operatives to Kwara and Oyo states, where other members of the gang were apprehended.

The SFU spokesperson, ASP Lawal Audu, who paraded the suspects on Monday at the unit’s office in Ikoyi, said the bankers carried out the fraud on the accounts of customers, who did not subscribe to Internet banking.

He said, “The work of the network provider suspects was to assist the bankers to swap the SIM cards of the targeted bank customers so that they were unable to receive alerts of any transactions on their accounts within the period that money was stolen from their accounts.

“The suspects, after successful withdrawals of the money, transferred the money into about 40 different accounts to avoid being detected. They carried out their operations at weekends and public holidays so as to evade being detected by the bank monitoring mechanisms or the owners of the accounts. They defrauded their victims to the tune of over N150m.”

The SFU, however, did not disclose the banks the suspects worked for.

The gang leader, Salami, denied his involvement in the fraud, adding that one Moses had contracted him to get the ATM cards.

He said, “I was in an eatery at Surulere with my friends when the policemen came to arrest us and said we were fraudsters. In May this year, a friend of mine, Moses, asked me to get some ATM cards for him, but I did not demand what he wanted to use them for.

“I was looking for someone that could help me get the ATM cards when I came across one Abubakar at Ibadan, Oyo State. To my surprise, he brought about 40 cards to me.”

Abubakar said he got some of the cards from his friends.

One of the bankers, Shola, said, “One day, my manager called me to come to the office that my car on the premises was blocking another car. When I got there, I was told someone used my password for fraud and that my two colleagues had also confessed to the crime. That was how we were transferred to the SFU last Tuesday.”

Osuolale, another banker, also denied the allegation, saying he had given his faulty ATM card to an engineer in the bank to help him fix it.

One of the MTN agents, Okpetu, admitted swapping SIM cards, adding that he did not know they were being used for fraud.

However, MTN spokesman, Mr. Funsho Aina, said the agents were not employed by the network provider.

He said, “Those paraded yesterday at the SFU are not MTN workers. Rather, they are employees of a distribution partner, who runs a connect store.”

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Pictured! Nigerian Jailed For Almost $1m Fraud In US

A Nigerian, Fawaz Olanrewaju Animasaun  will spend the next two years in jail in the United States for defrauding East Texans and others out of nearly $1 million.

Twenty seven year-old  Animasaun, is one of two persons  named in a federal indictment for charges of aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit bank fraud, as well as aiding and abetting.



He was traveling to the U.S. from Ghana, by way of Amsterdam, when he was arrested at the airport in New York in November last year.

Under a plea agreement finalized in May, Animasaun is serving three years in prison on the conspiracy charge. He is ordered to pay $930,737.60 in restitution to three financial companies.

Court documents show Animasaun will pay $135,989 to East Texas-based Austin Bank as part of that restitution.

In addition, the agreement states that Northern Trust Company is due $46,800 and UMB Financial Corporation is due $747,948.60.

Animasaun and his alleged accomplice Idowu Temitope Omolade, also from Nigeria, are believed to be involved in at least 21 fraudulent wire transfers between April and August of 2012.

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Photos: London Famous Camden Lock Market Goes Up In Flames

Dozens of firefighters battled to bring a major fire under control at London's famous Camden Lock market.
Dramatic pictures of the blaze at the popular tourist destination show a raging fire.

Emergency services were called to the market in north London just before midnight.

The London Fire Brigade said ten fire engines and 70 firefighters had been dispatched and urged people to avoid the area.


Station manager David Reid, who was at the scene, said: "Crews worked hard to get the fire under control and to stop it from spreading to neighbouring buildings."

It is understood around 30% of the first, second, and third floors, and a third of the roof of the 30 by 40 metre building, was damaged by the fire, which was brought under control around 2.50am.

There is not thought to be any injuries with London Ambulance Service saying they are not treating anybody at scene.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

Delta: Man Set Self Ablaze Over Wife’s Infidelity

A middle-aged man has reportedly set himself ablaze over an allegation of his wife infidelity at Owharen Street of Ovwian in Udu Council Area of Delta State.

The incident, Punch correspondent gathered, occurred on Friday inside the apartment of the victim.

Sources said the incident, however, led to serious anxiety among residents of the area as the inferno spread to other apartments as properties worth millions of naira were said to have been destroyed in the process.

A resident of the area hinted that the victim had in the weeks past threatened to kill himself after his wife was reportedly caught pants down with one of his male messengers in the area.

The source added that on Friday when the man returned home and he locked himself and poured fuel on his body and thereafter light himself where he burnt beyond recognition before help could come.

“Some few weeks ago, his wife, Blessing was caught pant down by their neighbours with a young boy who washes the Keke of the man. The boy is one of the boys whom he usually sent on an errand in the area.

“Though the wife has since left his apartment, the man returned home that day, poured fuel on his body, barricaded himself inside his apartment with an iron bar and set himself ablaze”, the source told newsmen.

Another resident of the area said their action was drawn to the incident when a thick smoke was seen emanating from the apartment was fast spreading to other neighbouring apartments whose residents were already asleep.

Owner of the building, Mr Nyonren Egharan while lamenting the incident said, “When the fire broke out, I ran to where the fire started from, broke into the apartment and tried to rescue the victim who held on to a chair and insisted that he wanted to end his life.

“His action during the inferno that claimed his life fuels the suspicion that he may have set the house on fire by himself to reinforce the suicide argument. I sustained serious burnt from the raging fire while trying to rescue the victim.”

The landlord who claimed that all his life savings were consumed in the inferno appealed to the Delta State Government and Udu council to come to his rescue to enable him start life again.

A source at the Ovwian-Aladja Police Station also confirmed the incident, adding that the victim had been evacuated to a nearby morgue.

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The 24-year-old handed himself in at a police station on Sunday and is being held in custody, Scotland Yard said.Resham Khan and Jameel Muhktar, 37, were attacked by a man throwing acid through their car window on Ms Khan's 21st birthday.

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