{"id":325,"date":"2014-02-03T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T17:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/?p=325"},"modified":"2015-12-14T00:04:08","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T23:04:08","slug":"65million-naira-fraud-rocks-wema-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/?p=325","title":{"rendered":"6.5MILLION NAIRA FRAUD ROCKS WEMA BANK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/segunoloketuyi-5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/segunoloketuyi-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><b>Though the amount in question is considered not to be a colossal one,<br \/>\njust about N6.5 Million, yet it just shows how porous the anti-fraud<br \/>\nsecurity network of Wema Bank Plc is. If an amount running into 6 digits<br \/>\ncan just develop wings and do the Houdini. <\/b><br \/>\n<b><br \/>\n<\/b><br \/>\n<b>The money in question belongs to a parastatal of the Lagos<br \/>\nGovernment, the Vehicle Inspection Office (VIO). The money we hear is a<br \/>\ncollection of proceeds from fines imposed by the VIO &amp; other<br \/>\npayments by the office, between June &amp; October of 2013. The phantom<br \/>\nmoney disappeared from the Iponri branch of Wema Bank.<\/b><br \/>\n<b><br \/>\n<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Apparently the account discrepancies was noticed after the VIO<br \/>\naccount department had done a reconciliation and to their shock the said<br \/>\namount that should be in their account had gone missing; so the alarm<br \/>\nwas raised. The VIO office immediately demanded an investigation on<br \/>\ntheir account with WEMA Bank and from the subsequent investigation, the<br \/>\nman with the supposed magic wand (hands) turned out to be a Mr. Olakunle<br \/>\nOlatunbosun, a teller at the bank who had been employed into the bank<br \/>\njust 2 years before the incidence and had been transferred to the Iponri<br \/>\nbranch just a year ago. <\/b><br \/>\n<b><br \/>\n<\/b><br \/>\n<b>In the course of the investigation by the panel set up by the bank, a<br \/>\nstaff of the VIO, Lateef Goloba, who works in the account department<br \/>\nand who was directly in charge of the money deposited was able to show<br \/>\nthat he was not culpable. While Lateef Goloba, deposited the funds and<br \/>\ngot his customer&#8217;s tellers duly stamped, the teller in charge, Mr.<br \/>\nOlakunle Olatunbosun, did not stamp and file the bank&#8217;s control copies.<br \/>\nSo money was duly deposited but was not accounted for by Olatunbosun. <\/b><br \/>\n<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Working on the theory that the fraud must have been perpetrated and<br \/>\nsuccessful due to the active connivance of the 2 directly involved with<br \/>\nthe money, the panel set up to investigate the matter showed that Lateef<br \/>\nGoloba was faithful in his work as he duly deposited all the funds and<br \/>\nhad evidence to show for it, only Mr. Olatunbosun couldn&#8217;t account for<br \/>\nthe monies paid to him and was found culpable. So Wema Bank agreed to<br \/>\nrefund the stolen money and then Mr. Olatunbosun was sacked and handed<br \/>\nover to the police. The bank in going further also reprimanded the<br \/>\nsupervisor in charge of Olatunbosun&#8217;s department for condoning lapses<br \/>\nand for not being alive to his duties and recommended that the staff<br \/>\nmembers in that branch would forgo promotion no matter how fantastic<br \/>\ntheir appraisal for one year. maestromedia<\/b><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Though the amount in question is considered not to be a colossal one, just about N6.5 Million, yet it just shows how porous the anti-fraud security network of Wema Bank Plc is. If an amount <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/?p=325\" title=\"6.5MILLION NAIRA FRAUD ROCKS WEMA BANK\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}