26-yr-old cashier gets 8-yr jail term for stealing customer’s N9.3m

Judgdment has been served on 26-year-old David Anibolu, a First Bank cashier who allegedly stole the sum of N9.3 million belonging to a customer.

He has been slammed with an 8-year jail term by an Igbosere Magistrates Court in Lagos.

According to the prosecutor, Police Superintendent, Chidi Okoye, the accused who was arraigned on a two-count charge of conspiracy and stealing committed the crime on the 22nd of March 2015.

The prosecutor said Anibolu, who was supposed to be on annual leave came to the bank where he worked at FBN Alaba 2 branch in Ojo under the pretext that he wanted to assist a customer in posting his land use charges but he allegedly used the opportunity to transfer the sum of N9.308 million from a customer’s account into other accounts.

“He fraudulently changed a customer’s identity and mandate card which enabled him to debit the said account of the sum N9 million and transferred it into various accounts,” Okoye said.

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While confessing to some of the charges levelled against him, Anibolu said; “I have been working with the bank as a teller since 2011 but on the day of the incident, I used the passwords of my colleagues with the help of “F” Key logger given to me by my friend called Afeez who is now at large.

“The logger helps link a customer’s identification with another that has online banking, which enables cash to be transferred successfully from one account to another. My regret now is that I was supposed to get N4 million as my share but the receivers of the money have since disappeared. I regret my action.” He said.

The trial of the accused which lasted for two years and nine month was brought to a close on January 25, 2017 with the Chief Magistrate finding him not guilty of a count of conspiracy but convicted him of stealing.

He was sentenced to eight years in prison, beginning from the date of his detention.

 

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