A fresh fraud tale is currently trailing Fidelity Bank.
Reports reaching us reveals how sometime in May, Sanusi Brothers Nig Ltd leased out their premises situated Plot 9, Block A, Ogba Scheme, Ogba Industrial Estate, Lagos and 2 Akanni Doherty, Off Oba Akran Road, Ikeja respectively to Mobile Telephone Networks Ltd (popularly known as MTN) for erection of telecommunication masts.
The premises were leased to MTN at the sum of N4,333,333,33 (Four million Three hundred and thirty three thousand three hundred and thirty three naira thirty kobo) for three years.
However, when the lease between Sanusi Brother Nig Ltd (SBNL) and MTN was due for renewal, one of the Executors of the Estate of Alhaji Abdul Razaak Olajide Sanusi, Mrs. Fallilat Sanusi-Lawal, received two bankers cheques for the sums of N9,750,000.00 (Nine million Seven Hundred and fifty thousand Naira) in favour of Sanusi Brother Nig Ltd being rent for the demised premises.
Instead of lodging the cheques into the company’s account as expected she diverted the cheques to her personal use with the connivance of Fidelity Bank.
Sources close to www.theoctopusnews.com, revealed that subsequent Mrs. Falilat Sanusi-Lawal cleared the cheque through an account fraudulently opened with Fidelity Bank, Ogba, Lagos.
Our source revealed that the need to portray the bank as a sucessful one saw its top staffers ensuring that the woman had her way with no regards for due process.
Reacting to a Voxpop, Akeem Akamu told www.theoctopusnews.com that if the said Mrs. Falilat Sanusi-Lawal was neither a director nor shareholder of Sanusi Brothers Nig Ltd and, Fidelity Bank allowed her to open an account in the name of the company without any authority from the organisation then they are aiding fraud.
Akamu further said “It’s so obvious that Fidelity Bank breached its own internal guidelines and regulations of the opening and operation of corporate account. Fidelity bank also failed to carry out any mandatory and necessary searches to confirm whether the said Mrs. Falilat was authorized to open bank accounts on behalf of the company (SBNL).”
Further investigation by www.theoctopusnews.com revealed that with the help of the bank manager, Mrs. Falilat was able to open an account with the company’s name without necessary documentation.
Fidelity Bank also failed to cite the Company’s Form CAC and particulars of Shareholders and Director’s respectively before opening the account.
Our source revealed that upon discovering the misappropriation of its fund by the said Mrs. Falilat, the company wrote several letters to Fidelity bank requesting for the return of its fund. Although Fidelity Bank acknowledged receipt of the said letters, it replied that the matter would be investigated.
Months after, Sanusi Brother Nigeria Limited is yet to be informed the outcome of the said investigation, and neither has the total sum of N19.5M (Nineteen Million Five hundred thousand naira only) cleared been returned to the rightful owners.
-Additional report from shybellmedia
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