Bank Fraud: EFCC Returns over N36M To Schools

Hamilton Nwosa
Writer

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The EFCC has returned a sum of N36, 186,12.00( Thirty Six Million, One Hundred and Eighty-Six Thousand, Twelve Naira) to Mrs Ifeoma Chukwuogo, Proprietress of Jephtah International School, East-West Road, Port Harcourt, Rivers State being money recovered from three suspected fraudsters who allegedly diverted the school’s money for their private uses.
The suspects: Cyril Ameh Idakwoji, a staff of Access Bank plc who was the Account Officer of the school, Boma Obama Chisom, who posed as the Customer Relations Officer of the bank and Aderemi Adebayo Moses another accomplice who prints fake documents, allegedly diverted a sum of over N37,000,000( Thirty-seven Million Naira only) belonging to the school and thereby threw it into financial difficulties.

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