The Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Okotie-Eboh, on Friday, May 16, 2025,
arraigned one Solomon Stephen Ufayo, a staff of Ecobank Plc, on a one-count
charge bordering on alleged cybercrime to the tune of N2,404,000(Two Million
Four Hundred and Four Thousand Naira) before Justice Yellim Bogoro of the
Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos.
The count reads: “That you, Solomon Stephen
Ufayo, between the 10th to the 28th day of March, 2025, in Lagos, within the
jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, while working for Ecobank Nigeria
Limited as a Relief Teller, fraudulently represented yourself as Ogunfodunrin
Omowunmi Ajoke, by posting false deposit and withdrawal tellers on her Ecobank
account number 2801086259, with intent to gain advantage for yourself and
thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 22(2)(b)(i) of the Cybercrime
(Prohibition and Prevention etc)Act, 2015 and punishable by Section 22(2)(b) of
the same Act.”
The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge when it was
read to him.
Following his guilty plea, prosecution counsel,
Abdulhamid L.Tukur, called on David Ngale Gajere, an operative of the
EFCC, to review the facts of the case.
Gajere told the court that Ufayo, who is a Relief
Teller with the Bank, fraudulently represented himself as one Miss. Omowunmi
Ajoke, a customer of the Bank, by posting false deposits into her Ecobank
account and moving the total sum of N2, 404,000, which he filled out in
withdrawal deposit slips without her consent and paid the same into his own
Opay account.
He further informed the court that the defendant
provided an extra-judicial statement and also issued a bank draft for
N2,404,000 as restitution to the petitioner.
He identified the defendant’s extra- judicial
statement, copies of the bank slips, the certified true copy of the bank draft
for the restitution to the tune of N2,404,000.
The prosecution counsel then sought to tender, in
evidence, the documents, which were admitted and marked as exhibits
by the court.
The judge adjourned the case till June 6, 2025
for judgment and ordered the defendant to be remanded in the Ikoyi Correctional
Centre.
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