Policemen attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) Ikeja are
investigating an alleged theft of N8million from Vice Pres ident Yemi
Osinbajo’s bank account.
It was gathered that two undergraduate
students of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka identi fied as Ebuka
Orumba and Patrick Nwafor allegedly hacked into the account of Simmons
Cooper Partner, a law firm said to belong to Vice President Osinbajo and
allegedly stole eight million naira (N8miilion) from it.
According
to investiga tion, the undergraduates Nwafor is a final year 500level
student of Envi ronmental Science while Orumba is a final year Computer
Engineering student.
It was gathered that the students used
fraudulent means to hack into the email of the Account man ager of the
VP’s law firm, one Mr. Tunde Irukera, and they allegedly sent a mail to
UBA PLC branch to one Obuba Fidelia on July 2nd instructing the bank to
transfer eight mil lion naira from Simmions Cooper Bank account to three
different bank ac counts they opened for the fraud.
It was
further gathered that the undergraduates allegedly connived with a
tricycle rider one Artor Kalu to open a bank ac count with Zenith bank
account number 2086943174 where three million naira (N3,000,000) was
trans ferred to with the false name Engineer Asukwo Okoro.
The remaining amounts were said to have been transferred to two other unnamed bank accounts.
Luck
however ran out on the undergraduates when their alleged gang member,
Mr. Kalu went to the Zenith bank account at Mushin to withdraw the
N3,000,000 but was nabbed by detectives from SARS following a tip off
from the bank.
The police subsequent ly arrested Kalu and fol lowing his statement, the police arrested Orumba but Nwafor escaped.
Following
the investiga tion, the police discovered that Kalu with the help of
others got a fake Driver’s license which he used to open the Zenith Bank
ac count.
The police has since charged Orumba and Kalu to court
on a 5 count charge on conspiracy, stealing and fraud while efforts is
on to arrest Nwafor whom the others claimed to be the master mind of the
fraud.