Skye Bank Manager In N200m Fraud Scandal

A banker with Skye Bank is presently cooling off in the den of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over his alleged involvement in a-N200-million fraud he carried out between 2010 and 2013, Aproko247 can confirm.

The accused person, Tajudeen Yusuf, was a former Business Development Manager of Skye Bank branch in Jos, Plateau State.

Yusuf, 35, was said to have “at different times received the sum of N200 million from one Alhaji Usman Tetengi, a customer of the bank for deposit in his account.

“Rather than pay the said amount into the customer account, the accused allegedly diverted the money for personal use while issuing fake deposit slips under the pretense that the account of the customer has been credit,” a statement from the EFCC explained.

He was brought before Justice A L Allagoa of the Federal High Court, Jos on Wednesday, November 19, 2014 on a five-count charge bordering on theft, forgery and obtaining money by false pretence.

“That you Tajudeen Yusuf sometimes between the year 2010 and 2013 in Jos, Plateau state within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, with intent to defraud, obtained  the sum of two hundred million naira (N200, 000, 000.00) only under false pretense from one Alhaji Usman Tetengi to be placed as fixed deposit in the bank to yield profit and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 1 (1) and punishable under section 1 (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Fraud Related offences Act of 2006,” one of the counts read.

Though the accused pleaded not guilty to the charge when it was read to him, but Justice Allagoa ordered that he should be remanded in prison custody, while the case was adjourned to Friday, November 21, 2014 for further hearing on the bail application.

Skye Bank is one of the banks in Nigeria believed to be a haven of fraudsters. Some customers have left the bank for others because of reported cases of fraud in bank.

Efforts being made by the bank’s management to curtail cases of frauds being allegedly carried out by its personnel are not known by Aproko247.