Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

Two Bag Five Years Imprisonment For N18m Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, October 5, 2017 secured the conviction of the duo of Useni Akpan and Ukpai Onyike before Justice Ibrahim Buba of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos. The convicts, who defrauded some customers of a bank to the tune of over N18, 000,000 (Eighteen Million Naira) over a period of two years, had been arrested at a Union Bank Plc branch in Ibadan, Oyo State, while in the process of obtaining an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) card of another unsuspecting customer of the bank. They were arraigned on October 7, 2016, on a five…