A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered that a Senior Manger of Ecobank Plc, Anieka Udoh charged for fraud and conversion of funds should be remanded in prison custody.
According to a criminal charge filed before the court by EFCC, Udoh and Ecobank were alleged to have fraudulently converted the sum of $60,000 and N9.2mllion belonging to an officer of the Nigerian Army, Major General Umaru Mohammed who is a customer of the bank.
They were alleged to have committed the offence sometimes in 2009 and 2016 respectively by failing to exercise due diligence in relation to conduct of financial transactions with General Umaru’s Ecobank MasterCard account number 0015052989. The offence was contrary to section 7(3) of the advance Free Fraud and other related offences Act and punishable under the same Act.
The anti graft agency also alleged that the sum of $60,000 and N9.2million belonging to General Mohammed was fraudulently converted by Ecobank and Udoh in 2009 and 2016 respectively.
The defendants pleaded not guilty to the charge. Thereafter the presiding judge, Justice Saliu Saidu adjourned till 12 March 2019 when the bail application will be heard.