Judiciary

Bank Theft: Supervisor, cashier docked for allegedly stealing customer’s $30,000

admin
30 Aug 2019 10:03 AM GMT
Bank Theft: Supervisor, cashier docked for allegedly stealing customer’s $30,000
x

Bank Theft: Supervisor, cashier docked for allegedly stealing customer’s $30,000     Two bank employees on Friday appeared in a Tinubu Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, for allegedly stealing 30,000 dollars (about N10.8 million) deposited by a customer. The police charged Tonia Ibe, 32; a supervisor, and Mary-Charles Ikejiofor, 35; a cashier, with two counts […]

Bank Theft: Supervisor, cashier docked for allegedly stealing customer’s $30,000

Two bank employees on Friday appeared in a Tinubu Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, for allegedly stealing 30,000 dollars (about N10.8 million) deposited by a customer.
The police charged Tonia Ibe, 32; a supervisor, and Mary-Charles Ikejiofor, 35; a cashier, with two counts of conspiracy and theft.
Both defendants, however, pleaded innocence of the charges.
The Prosecution Counsel, ASP Edet Okoi, told the court that the defendants committed the offence on Aug. 8 at 11 a.m. at Access Bank of Nigeria Plc, Festac Branch, Lagos.
He alleged that the defendants stole the money deposited with the bank by a customer, Mr Jian Lin.
Okoi noted that the customer brought the money to the bank and handed it to the cashier, Ikejiofor, to deposit in his account but the first defendant gave the money to her supervisor, Ibe.
He alleged that the supervisor claimed to have kept the money inside her drawer in her office.
The prosecution alleged that Ibe later said that the money got missing the next day.
The offence, he said, contravened the provisions of sections 287 (7) and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
Supreme Magazine reports that these sections of the law prescribed seven-year imprisonment for stealing from one’s employer, and two years for conspiracy respectively.
The Chief Magistrate, Mr Tajudeen Elias, admitted the defendants to bail in the sum of N1 million each with two sureties each, in like sum.
Elias ordered that one of the sureties must be an employee of the bank and the other, a relative of the defendants.
He adjourned the case until Sept. 3 for hearing.
Source: NAN
Photo Credit: Google
admin

admin

    Next Story