Access Bank staff stealing N18 million from customer’s account sends panic & shock to depositors

Some customers of Access Bank Plc are stiff worried over the safety of their deposits with the bank as the Head of Automated Teller Machine (ATM) operations at the Daura branch of the bank in Katsina State has confessed to conspiring with a colleague to steal about N18 million belonging to a customer.

This much was disclosed by the Katsina Police Command on Wednesday.

“I primed an ATM card for a colleague and friend of mine, and he said N18 million was the dividend from the bank, of which he sent me N10 million,” the suspect, Adewumi Bolaji Gabriel, said when the police paraded him along with others for sundry offences at the Katsina Police Headquarters.

The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Abubakar Sadiq Aliyu, explained that the arrest followed a complaint from an Assistant Head of Operations at Access Bank Daura branch “on a suspected case of fraud against one Adewumi Bolaji Gabriel, age 28, the Head of ATM at Access Bank Daura.

“The suspect criminally conspired with a friend, one David Mesioye, a staff of Access Bank Kafur branch, now at large, to steal the sum of ₦18,160,000.00 from a customer’s bank account.

“The suspects used their expertise of the bank’s operations to carry out the theft, which was discovered during an audit.

“In the course of the investigation, the suspect confessed to the commission of the offence as the following exhibits were recovered from him: the sum of ₦10,180,000.00 from his different bank accounts, physical cash of ₦366,900.00, and other valuables.

“The suspect will be charged to court upon completion of the investigation.”