Diamond Bank manager, Chinedu Oguike has been sent to prison by Justice Abdulazeez Anka of the Federal High Court in Lagos over an alleged N24 million fraud. The ex-manager of the bank fraudulently obtain N24 million from one Ufomba Nnabugwu while acting as Oyingbo branch manager of the bank, the police revealed in a charge marked FHC/L/334c/16.
He was said to have obtained the sum of N24 million from the customer under false pretence of handing over a property located at Plot E-136, Adelaja Opesanwo Street, Ijegun-Egba, Satellite town, covered by a Federal Government’s Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) registered as No. 48, Page 48, volume 52, at the Federal Lands Registry Office, Ikoyi, dated August 25, 1999.
Also, Chinedu Oguike allegedly used a fake name, Edwin Obele Ezeakachukwu, to obtain a loan facility from the bank for himself. He then went ahead to use the property at Satellite Town as collateral for the loan. The offences were contrary to and punishable under Sections 8(a), 1(1)(a) (3) of Advance Fee Fraud and other Fraud related Offences Act, 2006, and 1(2) (C) of the Miscellaneous Offences Act. Cap. M17, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004
Diamond Bank manager imprisoned for multiple fraud
