Access Bank CEO Herbert Wigwe To Stand Trial For N2.5bn Fraud | Sahara Reporters

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Wigwe and other defendants were also alleged to have obtained the sum of N2,572,500 billion, from Africa Steel Mills Limited by false representation that they were the owners of the said steel billets.

The Special Fraud Unit of the Nigeria Police Force, Milverton Ikoyi-Lagos, has preferred a N2.5billion fraud charge against Herbert Wigwe, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Access Bank Plc, his bank and two others before an Ogun State High Court, Sagamu.

In the charge marked HCS/010/19, SFU alleged that the Access Bank boss and others, sometime in June 2017, at the premises on Metal Africa Steel Products Limited, Kilometre 16, Ikorodu/Sagamu road, Ewe Jagun, Ogun State, conspired among themselves to have unlawfully effected the sale of 23,754.413 metric tonnes of steel billets, belonging to BMCE Bank International Plc for N2,572,500 billion to Africa Steel Products Limited.

The offence is also said to have contravened Section 1 and 1 of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related offences Act No. 14 of 2006. Particulars of Offence: That you Herbert Wigwe ‘M’, Alawode Oluseye ‘M’, Bayo Adesina ‘M’ and Access Bank Plc, on 22 day of June, 2017, at the premises at Met Africa Steel Products Limited, Km 16, Ikorodu-Sagamu Road, Ewe Jagun, Ogun State within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, conspired among yourselves to effect unlawful purpose to wit: the unlawful and unauthorised sale of 754.

Statement of 0ffence : Stealing of Money, contrary to Sections 383 and 390 of the Criminal Code of Ogun State of Nigeria, 2005.

 

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