The Special Offences Court in Ikeja, Lagos, has sentenced a former banker, Christopher Jackson Edeh, to five years’ imprisonment over a N2.7 billion fraud.
The trial decide O.O. Abike-Fadipe convicted Mr Edeh on 9 counts of fraudulent false accounting and unauthorised entry to a pc system.
She sentenced Mr Edeh to five years’ imprisonment with out an possibility of nice on every of the primary seven counts, which bordered on fraudulent false accounting.
She additionally imposed two years’ imprisonment with out the choice of a nice on every of the remaining two counts relating to unauthorised entry to a pc system to facilitate the fee of crimes.
The decide ordered that each one the sentences run concurrently.
Although the full imprisonment added up to 39 years, the convict will serve solely five – the longest single sentence – due to the decide’s order that the phrases run concurrently.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) spokesperson Dele Oyewale disclosed this in a press release on Tuesday.
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The assertion famous that Mr Edeh was arraigned on 28 February 2024 for allegedly altering the account particulars of a number of prospects and government-related entities.
The affected accounts included these of the Kano State Government Power Intervention Fund, NNPC Trading Limited, Stallion Vision Ltd, the Lagos State Government Blue Line mission, the State Contributory Pension Account and Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University.
Earlier stories on the case linked Mr Edeh to alleged unauthorised entry to the Fidelity Bank’s Entrust portal. Dangote Cement Plc was additionally named among the many prospects affected by the alleged transactions.
During the trial, prosecution lawyer Z.B. Atiku known as three witnesses and tendered paperwork in proof. The defence known as one witness.
In her judgement, Mrs Abike-Fadipe held that the prosecution had proved its case past affordable doubt.
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