Diamond Bank MD |
A staff of the
Item Street branch of the Diamond Bank Plc, Owerri, Mr. Daniel Chibueze
Meshach is presently cooling his heels in the detention cell of the Imo
state Police command for allegedly masterminding an armed robbery
operation in the state.
Daniel Meshach,
27, from Isingwu Ofeme-Ohuhu in Umuahia North council area of Abia
state and two others were arrested by men of the Ambush Squad of the Imo
state police command after a fierce confrontation with the Police as
they tried to escape the scene of crime after successfully robbing their
victim of cash and valuables at Umurim, Nekede, in Owerri West Council
area of Imo state.
Lamenting his
fate, the very eloquent banker confessed to the crime. He agreed he
planned the operation and picked the victim of the robbery himself,
apparently through privileged information. He blamed his involvement in
armed robbery on peer pressure and pleaded to be given a second chance.
Also arrested
and paraded alongside the banker was one Emmanuel Chisom, a student of
the Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Owerri, who confessed to supplying three
firearms for the robbery operation.
Taking
questions from newsmen, Chisom denied being the current leader of a
dreaded campus cult group as alleged, noting that he was deposed last
year, as leader of the Vikings confraternity, after what he termed a
‘mutiny’. It is widely believed that apparent cult involvement may have
drawn the banker into crime.
Two locally
made pistols were also recovered from them. However, the Imo state
Police command has assured that the banker and his gang would soon be
charged to court on completion of investigations into the matter.
However,
recently, Marilyn-Joan Obiora, a senior staff of Diamond Bank, was
prosecuted by the EFCC at the Federal High Court in Umuahia, Abia State.
Obiora’s stunts were exposed in a petition by Stephen Inegbu, the
bank’s zonal security supervisor in Port Harcourt. His petition was
inspired by the bank’s inspection unit, which discovered that Obiora,
abetted by four other staff of the bank, made fraudulent withdrawals
totaling N125.6 million in three installments. Obiora and colleagues
withdrew N26 million, N91.6 million and N8 million.
Like Obiora,
the duo of Ebele Okoh and Charles Amadi, also of Diamond Bank, also
faced allegations before the Karu Chief Magistrate’s Court, Abuja. Okoh
and Amadi of the bank’s Zone 4 branch in Abuja were accused of
withdrawing N250,000 from a customer’s account. Police prosecutor, Garba
Mohammed, explained that Okoh and Amadi scanned the signatures of some
customers, with the intention to use them for withdrawals. The suspects
did not go far in their scheme before they ran out of luck. By then,
they had withdrawn N250,000 from the account of one L. A. Mittee through
one Amaechi Josiah, who is also being tried for alleged theft in the
same court.
in a related
development,Naijahottestgist findings reveal that the Md of Diamond bank
is in a terrible mess as his name has been mentioned in multiple Money
Laundering petitions to Efcc,on the efcc table isan huge allegation of
money laundering against Alex who helped Nassarawa Governor launder huge
billions of Naira.
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