Court Jails Heritage Bank’s Staff 7 Years Over Fraud

Omosanyin Eniola, a 40-year-old account officer with Heritage Bank Plc, will serve the next seven years in prison after being found guilty of a N21.8 million bank fraud case by an appropriately constituted court.

Omosanyin of the Heritage Bank was sentenced to seven years in prison last Friday after Chief Magistrate Linda Yetunde Balogun of a Lagos Chief Magistrate’s Court, Yaba, found him guilty of two out of seven counts of conspiracy fraud and stealing of checks brought against him by the Police Special Fraud Unit (PSFU) Ikoyi, Lagos, according to The Caveat.

In convicting and punishing the banker, Chief Magistrate Balogun ruled that the prosecution had successfully established beyond a reasonable doubt that the banker at Heritage Bank was guilty of conspiracy and N21.8 million in fraud.

However, Chief Magistrate Balogun dismissed the banker’s four counts of using forged Spring Bank checks to commit the crimes. In her final ruling, Chief Magistrate Balogun sentenced the banker to seven years in jail on count two, with the option of paying N21.8 million in restitution to the fraud victim, and a year in prison on count one without the possibility of a fine.

The PSFU through it’s prosecutor, Daniel Apochi, had dragged the convict before the court on a seven count charge of conspiracy, fraud, and forging of Spring Bank’s cheques.

The prosecutor had told the court that the convict committed the offences between 2011 and 2014, while working at the Heritage Bank’s headquarters, Lagos, as an Account Officer.

During the trial, the prosecutor called three witnesses, who included the Investigation Police Officer (IPO) Mr. Jim Omoruyi, the fraud victim, one Adeleke and official of Heritage Bank.

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The prosecutor also tendered several exhibits which includes; copy of petition by Heritage Bank to the police, convict’s confessional statement, victim’s statement of account, some of the Spring Bank’s cheques used in withdrawing the money and others, which were admitted by the court.

The two counts which the banker was jailed reads: “That you, Omosanyin Eniola ‘M’ while working with Heritage Bank Ltd; with Headquarters in Lagos and charge with the responsibility as an Account Officer, between 2011 and 2014, with intent to defraud, conspired amongst with other persons, now at large, to commit a felony to wit; stealing and forgery; and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 409 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2011.

That between 2011 and 2014, Omosanyin Eniola “M,” an Account Officer for Heritage Bank Ltd. with headquarters in Lagos, committed an offence in violation of Section 278 (1) (b) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria by fraudulently withdrawing N21, 800,000.00 (Twenty-One Million, Eight Hundred Thousand Naira) from Heritage Bank Ltd.

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