The Lagos State High Court in Ikeja has fined a former banker, Chukwuebuka Nweke, N1 million for unlawfully accessing a pc used to facilitate the withdrawal of the identical quantity from a buyer’s bank account.
According to a press release shared with PREMIUM TIMES by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) spokesperson Dele Oyewale on Tuesday, the decide Ismail Ijelu convicted Mr Nweke on Monday, after a trial in which the prosecution known as 5 witnesses and the defence known as one.
The fee said that Mr Nweke accessed a desktop laptop assigned to Emmanuella Anyanwu with out lawful authority on 21 June 2025. The act facilitated the unauthorised withdrawal of N1 million from an account belonging to Leelee Dumbari.
The EFCC’s Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 prosecuted Mr Nweke on one rely of illegal withdrawal.
He pleaded not responsible to the cost introduced beneath Section 386(1) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
In his judgement, Mr Ijelu ordered Mr Nweke to pay a fantastic of N1 million inside 30 days, failing which he could be remanded in a correctional centre for six months.
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Recently, the courtroom convicted Samuel Asiegbu over costs involving computer-related fraud.
Mr Asiegbu was arraigned on 23 June 2025 alongside a number of others on 4 counts of conspiracy, stealing and unauthorised entry to a pc system with intent to commit fraud, opposite to Sections 409 and 386 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
After a trial that lasted 135 days, the courtroom sentenced him to 10 months and eight days’ imprisonment on rely three and one yr and eight months on rely 4, with no possibility of a fantastic. The sentences are to run concurrently, whereas counts one and two had been struck out.
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