A
31-year old graduate, Kehinde Lateef who served his one year internship
with Sterling Bank Plc, Lagos Island, has been arrested for allegedly
hacking the bank's database and fraudulently withdrawing the sum of
N53.6 million naira from the accounts of two customers of the bank.
The
police at Lion Building Division, Campbell Street, Lagos Island, who
arrested the suspect alleged that Kehinde conspired with three others
now at large to hack into the system of the bank a few days after he
completed his one year service with the bank and withdrew the sum of
N49.1m from one account and N4.5m from another account and escaped.
Kehinde was arrested after the management of the bank reported the money stolen.
According
to PM News, a police team led by Inspector Elegbede Oluranti, after one
year of manhunt for the suspected scammers, tracked down Kehinde Lateef
at his residence on Ishawo Road, Ikorodu, Lagos, and arrested him,
while others escaped.
Lateef was arraigned before a Tinubu Magistrates’ Court, Lagos on a three-count charge of felony, after due investigation.
The
accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the alleged crime in the open
court and Chief Magistrate A. O. Awogboro admitted the accused on bail
in the sum of N2 million with two sureties in like sum.
Awogboro
adjourned the case till 6 May, 2015, while the defendant was taken to
Ikoyi Prison till he's able to fulfil the bail conditions.
Source:PM News
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