The State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID),
Panti-Yaba, Lagos on Monday charged a Keystone Bank Plc worker, Mrs.
Chinonye Okafoagu, for allegedly stealing N3 million from an Automated
Teller Machine (ATM).
Okafoagu, 33, was arraigned before Chief
Magistrate A. O. Salawu of an Ebute-Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court, on a
four-count charge of conspiracy, stealing, forgery and false
modification of ATM data.
The police, in a charge marked,
N/73/2017, alleged that the banker and others now at large, committed
the offence on March 7, last year, at the FESTAC branch of the bank.
The
defendant allegedly, without lawful authority, modified the ATM’s data
and stopped the machine from dispensing money, “in a bid to steal the
N3m.”
Police said the Keystone Bank staff misrepresented herself as,
Elizabeth, the woman authorised to handle the bank’s ATM on the said
date, and appended her signature in the ATM loading staff register,
which she presented to the bank’s management.
The alleged
offences contravene and are punishable under sections 409, 285(7),
389(1), and 365(1) of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.
Okafoagu pleaded not guilty, The Nation reports.
Chief Magistrate Salawu granted her N500,000 bail with two sureties in the like sum and adjourned till September 25.