Photo: Nigeria Prison Service Assistant Arrested In Enugu For Stealing N3.9Million

Oct 20, 2015 – Picture: Nigeria Prison Service Assistant Arrested In Enugu For Stealing N3.9Million

A Prison Assistant with the Nigeria Prison Service (NPS), Onoja Osita Kingsley has been arraigned before Justice A.V. Agishir of the Federal High Court, Enugu over a three count charge.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday arraigned the suspect on charges of stealing, possession of fraudulent document and forgery to the tune of three million, nine hundred thousand Naira (N3,900,000).

The accused, Kingsley, allegedly orchestrated the fraudulent transfer of the sum of One Hundred and thirty two million, nine hundred thousand Naira (N132, 900,000.00) from six customers accounts with a new generation bank.

However, out of the said sum, Three Million, Nine Hundred Thousand Naira (N3, 900,000.00) was transferred into the account of one Uchenna Eze, which Onoja had opened with forged documents at the

Olu Obasanjo Road branch of Access Bank Plc, in Port Harcourt, River State.
He subsequently withdrew the sum of One Hundred and Forty Thousand Naira (N140, 000, 00) from the account.

His case has been adjourned till October 28, 2015 for hearing.

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