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Walter Akpani’s Providus Bank Officials Land In N1 Billion Fraud Scam—-Police in Abuja are investigating Providus Bank Limited, some of its officials, and another commercial bank in connection with an alleged N1 billion fraud scam.

We learnt that bank officials are being quizzed following a transfer of about N1 billion by a bureau de change operator in Abuja, Shamsudeen Ahmed through the banks to suspected criminals, who reportedly offered to sell $1 million from Dubai to him and the mysterious disappearance of the huge sum of money.

It was learned that detectives are looking into the involvement of the bank staff in the illegal transfer of the money after the suspects provided three account details where the complainant paid in the money only to later discover that the suspects conspired to defraud.

In a petition written on behalf of the complainant by Anthony Odule, and addressed to the Inspector General of Police, the complainant alleged that on December 8, 2023, he was contacted by the suspects, Gambo Dahiru, Ibrahim Mohammed, Shaibu Mohammed and Francis Azubuike aka Frank, who deceived him to believe that there was a genuine $1 million for sale from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, which he innocently indicated interest.

According to the petition, “Our client stated that the suspects provided the following account details: Account Name: Ushaib Global Investment Limited; Account number; Account number: 5400393231, domicile in (Providus Bank), Account name; Yadiz Oil and Gas Plc Nigeria Limited account; domicile in (a third-generation bank) and Account Name: A&M. Technology Red Set; Account number – 5404168804, (Providus Bank), where the complainant paid in N830 million, N330 million and N10 million, respectively.

“Our client stated that upon preliminary investigation, it was found that the suspects conspired among themselves to defraud our client of his hard-earned money as they do not have dollars anywhere to give to our client but have shared the money amongst themselves.

“What is worrisome to our client is that he borrowed part of the money he sent to the suspects and his conspirators, which non-payment will greatly affect his reputation negatively.”

It was gathered that immediately the complainant suspected foul play, he sent letters to all the banks where the money was sent, notifying them of the development and appealing that they stop the payment of the money and refund it to him.

However, according to the complainant, “One of the banks has refunded part of the money but the other one refused to send my money back to me. They claimed that the owner of the accounts said they gave me a value for the money which is not true.

“If they insist on telling that lie, why did the bank not ask for evidence? I asked the bank to return my money or freeze the account where the money was paid but they have not done anything. They have all the power to stop this fraud but they failed to do it.”

Police sources said detectives have been interrogating the officials of the banks while six of the suspected fraudsters have been arrested and they have refunded some amount of the money.

Efforts to reach the banks failed as calls made to their Head of Corporate Communications were not responded to.

Source: THE WITNESS

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#Endbadgovernance Protest: AGF Intercedes, Request Case File From Police

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#Endbadgovernance Protest: AGF Intercedes, Request Case File From Police—-The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN has directed that the case file of the detained ‘Endbadgovernance protesters be transferred to his office.
Fagbemi disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Abuja.
He said that he noticed that the police have arraigned those arrested in connection with the endbadgovernance violent protest in court for various offences, including treason.
He said that he is equally aware that the court has remanded the defendants in detention centres and adjourned the case to January.
“It is not within my power to vary the order of the court remanding the defendants in detention centres and adjourning the case to January.
“But there are some issues my office will need to look into regarding the matter to enable me take an informed decision.
“I have directed the Nigeria Police to transfer the case file to my office and hand over same to the Director of Public Prosecution of the Federation (DPPF) tomorrow, Saturday 2nd November, 2024.
“I have further directed the DPPF to immediately put machinery in motion for consideration of the court to bring the adjournment date forward to an earlier date,” he said.

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JUST IN: : Drama As Bobrisky Claimed To Be Arrested And Injured By EFCC [VIDEO]

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JUST IN: : Drama As Bobrisky Claimed To Be Arrested And Injured By EFCC [VIDEO]

JUST IN: : Drama As Bobrisky Claimed To Be Arrested And Injured By EFCC [VIDEO]—-Controversial Nigerian crossdresser Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky just claimed that he has been arrested and injured by EFCC while jetting to Amsterdam.

TCN earlier reported that he was apprehended at the Lagos airport while attempting to board a KLM flight to Amsterdam just days after being granted bail by the Nigerian Police.

The KLM flight which he boarded was halted by the Nigerian Authorities and Idris Okuneye was escorted out of the flight and carried by the immigration officer

Bobrisky revealed this incident on his Instagram story, whole sharing a brief video in which he claimed to be injured.

Making this ugly incident known, Bobrisky wrote,

“Nigerians help me, EFCC just arrested me. I’m badly injured,”.

This latest arrest comes barely few weeks after he was arrested at the Benin Republic Immigration Service at the popular Seme border during passport checks.

It was learnt that the embattled crossdresser was trying to leave Nigerian unnoticed when he was arrested.

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