Read the EFCC press statement below...
A former banker with Fidelity Bank Plc, Friday Yahaya (alias Peter
Arikhan) has been arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC, before Justice Lawal Akapo of the Lagos State High
Court sitting in Ikeja, for stealing depositors' fund to the tune of
N25, 350,000.00.
He was arraigned on a 16-count charge bordering on stealing;
impersonation and forgery.
Yahaya, a former marketing staff of Fidelity Bank, Balogun Business
Association branch, Trade Fair Complex, Lagos, allegedly defrauded nine
customers of the bank through diversion of their deposits into his
personal account with the bank.
His worst-hit victim had the sum of N21, 710,000 (Twenty One Million
Seven Hundred and Ten Thousand Naira) stolen from his account with the
Bank.
One of the charges reads:
“Friday Yahaya (Peter Arikhan) sometime between the months of February
and November 2013, at Lagos within the Ikeja Judicial Division, whilst
being a staff of Fidelity Bank Plc stole the sum of N21, 710, 000
(Twenty One Million Seven Hundred and Ten Thousand Naira) from account
number 6050729408 maintained by Ifeanyi Okoye, property of Fidelity Bank
Plc”.
When the charges were read to him, he pleaded not guilty.
Justice Akapo adjourned the matter till March 11, 2015 for hearing of
defence's bail application and ordered that the accused person be
remanded in Ikoyi prison.
Media & Publicity
18th February, 2015
