A Lagos Federal High Court, has ordered the remand of one Rosemary Usifor, a former branch manager of First City Monument Bank, FCMB, who is charged before the court over alleged N30m fraud, at the Special Fraud Unit, SFU custody.
The accused, former manager of Oke-Arin, Lagos Island branch of defunct Finbank (now FCMB), is facing a one-count charge of fraudulently obtaining the said sum from a fixed deposit account, belonging to a customer of the bank.
She however pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The trial Judge, Justice Saliu Saidu, however, ordered the accused to be remanded in the SFU’s custody, pending the hearing of a bail application filed by her counsel, Mr Osa Isibor. While adjourned the case to January 7, for hearing the bail application of the accused.
In the charge, the prosecutor, Mr Effiong Asuquo, a Chief Superintendent of Police, alleged that the accused committed the offence in 2011.
Asuquo alleged that the accused had forged a letter, with which she used to fraudulently obtained the sum of N30 million from the fixed deposit account of one DIG Archibong Nkanga Rtd, a customer of the bank.
According to Asuquo, the accused that has been at large since the perpetuation of the crime in 2011 was eventually arrested by the Police, in November.
He said the alleged offence contravenes the provisions of sections 1(2) (a), (c), and sections 3 (1) (2) of the Miscellaneous Offences Act, Cap. M17, Laws of the Federation, 2004.