Adeogun EFCC Suspect Mary Ogunariwo: arrested
A 29 year-old warder with the old Abeokuta Prisons, Ibara, Abeokuta,
Ogun State, Joseph Emmanuel is at present in the custody of the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for allegedly assisting a prison
inmate in carrying out fraudulent financial transactions, as well as
using the name and documents of an illiterate taxi driver, to open a
First Bank account for the inmate.
The suspect allegedly assisted
the inmate whom he called ‘Ora’ to open the account, using the name of
one taxi driver in his neighbourhood called Monsuru Ogunsina Adeogun”.
He took the step after he rejected the entreaties of the inmate to avail him of his account number.
Having
made a promise to help the inmate with an account number, Emmanuel
threw caution and his work ethics to the wind and went ahead to open an
account, in the name of Adeogun, a father of four.
Investigations
showed that, after filling out the account opening documents and
observing all account opening formalities Emmanuel received the
withdrawal booklet and an ATM card to the account.
He handed the
withdrawal booklet to Adeogun and according to him, “I took the ATM card
to Ora (the inmate) and I helped him make three withdrawals from the
account, until the fourth time when the ATM machine rejected the card
and I called Adeogun to bring the withdrawal booklet, and it was that
Tuesday (March 5, 2014) that Adeogun was arrested at the bank and I came
down to EFCC to see him the following day and I was also detained for
my involvement”.
During investigation, it was gathered that the same inmate had
previously convinced one Ogunnariwo Mary, a student of Tai Solarin
University of Education, Ijebu Ode, to help him open an account with her
name.
According to Mary, “I went to the Abeokuta prisons to seek
for an Industrial Attachment placement, but was told that I have to go
to the Head Office, but before I could leave, an inmate who introduced
himself as ‘Timilehin’ approached me and pleaded with me to help him
open an account for him with my name so that I can help him withdraw
money whenever his family pays in money into the account”.
She said she went ahead to open the account in her name, and helped
the inmate to make several withdrawals, which were always collected by
different men who managed to show up each time she got a call from the
inmate to go and make a withdrawal.
This, she said, happened
between December 2013 and March 5, 2014, when she was also arrested
because the ATM machine rejected the card and she went into the banking
hall to lodge a complaint and to make the withdrawal with a withdrawal
slip.
Both Adeogun and Mary Ogunnariwo were arrested the same day and at the same bank and brought to the office of the EFCC together.
The suspects will be charged to court as soon as investigations are concluded.
"PMNEWS"
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