Daniel Chibueze Meshach
Diamond Bank of Nigeria Plc, a financial institution known to be associated with frauds and fraudsters has been implicated in a robbery case.
According to information available to www.theoctopusnews.com, a staff of the institution attached to the Item Street branch of the bank in Owerri, Imo State, is presently in detention at the state Police command for allegedly masterminding a robbery operation.
Daniel Meshach and two others were arrested by men of the Ambush Squad of the Imo State Police Command after a fierce gun battle, as they tried to escape a robbery scene after successfully robbing their victim of cash and valuables at Umurim, Nekede, in Owerri West Council area of Imo state.
Speaking to the Police, Daniel Meshach, confessed to the crime. According to him, he planned the operation and picked the victim of the robbery through privileged information.
Daniel Meshach, is not the first staff of Diamond Bank who would be prosecuted of a fraud related crime, as thieving customer’s money has turned their hallmark. Marilyn-Joan Obiora, a senior staff of the bank, was recently prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), at the Federal High Court in Umuahia, Abia State.
Our findings revealed that Obiora’s fraud were exposed in a petition by Stephen Inegbu, the bank’s zonal security supervisor in Port Harcourt. His petition was inspired by the bank’s inspection unit, which discovered that Obiora, and a team of four other staffers of the bank, made fraudulent withdrawals totalling N125.6 million in three instalments. Obiora and his colleagues withdrew N26 million, N91.6 million and N8 million.
Obviously, the act of fraud has become synonymous with the bank, as the duo of Ebele Okoh and Charles Amadi, are also answering question in relation to their part in a fraud before the Karu Chief Magistrate’s Court, Abuja. Okoh and Amadi of the bank’s Zone 4 branch in Abuja were accused of withdrawing N250,000 from a customer’s account.
Police prosecutor, Garba Mohammed, explained that Okoh and Amadi scanned the signatures of some customers, with the intention to use them for withdrawals. The suspects did not go far in their scheme before been caught although having withdrawn N250,000 from the account of one L. A. Mittee through one Amaechi Josiah, who is also being tried for alleged theft in the same court.
This is definitely the time for customers of the bank to start looking for a reliable financial institution before their money disappear into thin air.
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-Hamid Kowode
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