Crime

Man bags 48 years imprisonment For Duping Access Bank N25m

One Jules Suinner who claimed to be an Information Technologist has been sentenced to 48 years jail term for defrauding Access bank the sum of N25 million.

Suinner was sentenced on Friday by Justice Chuka Obiozor of Federal High Court, Lagos.

Justice Chuka Obiozor had on Friday last week ruled that the defendant is guilty of all six counts charge of conspiracy, fraudulent impersonation, being in possession of proceeds of illicit funds and internet fraud, leveled against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Sentencing the convict on Friday, after listened to the convict’s lawyer, Mr. Simeon Njoku and the EFCC counsel,  Ekene Iheanachor on the stake on how the court should sentence him, Justice Obiozor, after citing plethora of authorities  said “I have carefully considered the plea of leniency and equally noted period the convict spent in detention.The court is enjoined not to impose maximum fine on the first offender.

“I have considered the punishment on each of the offences. Consequently, the convict is hereby sentenced to four years in count one and two each, without an option of fine. The convict is sentenced to 10 years on counts three, four, five and six each with option of fine.

“Terms of the sentence shall run concurrently and the period spent in detention shall be deduct from the sentencing period, that is, from June 28, 2016 to December 8, 2017, shall be deducted from the sentencing period.The sum of N1 million recovered from the convict shall be refund to the bank in the intern as bond and it shall be finally release to the bank if there is no appeal against the judgment”.

EFCC had on Monday, September 5, 2016 first arraigned the convict before Justice Babs Kuewumi of the same Court on a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy to obtain money by false pretense to the tune of N37 (Thirty-Seven Million Naira).

He was however rearranged before Justice Obiozor sometimes in October, 2017, on amended charge of six count of defrauding the bank of N25 million.

The convict and other members of his team said to be at large, were said to hacked the email address and letterhead of a company named Greenview Development Nigeria Limited and used same to write a letter to Access Bank PLC to transfer the sum of N25, 000,000 (Twenty Five Million Naira) to the account of ICT Aid Foundation Cooperative Society domiciled with United Bank For Africa, UBA. The money was said to have been transferred on July 14, 2015.

The convict and others now at large, were said to have on July 22, 2015, allegedly wrote a letter to the Bank to transfer of the sum of N12, 000,000 (Twelve Million Naira)| to the account of one Tee-EM Nigeria Limited domiciled with UBA.

The convict pleaded not guilty to all the charge, which gave way for his trial. During the trial, the EFCC called three witnesses who include: Victor Adewale, a banker, Adeoti Gabriel, an official of the company used in defrauding the bank and Edith Ephraim, an investigator with the EFCC. EFCC also tendered several documents admitted as exhibits A to O4. While the convict was sole defense witness.

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