Policemen attached to the Special Anti- Robbery Squad (SARS) Ikeja are investigating an alleged theft of N8million from Vice Pres ident Yemi Osibajo's bank account.
It was gathered that two undergraduate students of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka identi fied as Ebuka Orumba and Patrick Nwafor allegedly hacked into his account and stole N8million.
The account is of Simmons Cooper Partner, a law firm said to belong to Vice President Osibajo.
It has been discovered that the Nwafor is a final year 500Level student of Environmental Science while Orumba is a final year student of Computer Engineering.
It was gathered that the students used fraudulent means to hack into the email of the Account manager of the VP's law firm, one Mr. Tunde Irukera, and they allegedly sent a mail to UBA PLC branch to one Obuba Fidelia on July 2nd instructing the bank to transfer eight mil lion naira from Simmions Cooper Bank account to three different bank ac counts they opened for the fraud.
It was further gathered that the undergraduates allegedly connived with a tricycle rider one Artor Kalu to open a bank ac count with Zenith bank ac count number 2086943174 where three million naira (N3,000,000) was trans ferred to with the false name Engineer Asukwo Okoro.
The remaining amounts were said to have been transferred to two other unnamed bank accounts.
But luck ran out on the undergraduates when their gang member, Mr. Kalu went to the Zenith bank account at Mushin to withdraw the N3m but was nabbed by detectives from SARS following a tip off from the bank.
The police immediately arrested Kalu, following his statement they arrested Orumba but Nwafor escaped.
Following investiga tion, the police discovered that Kalu with the help of others got a fake Driver's license which he used to open the Zenith Bank ac count.
The police has since charged Orumba and Kalu to court on a 5 count charge on conspiracy, stealing and fraud while efforts is on to arrest Nwafor whom the others claimed to be the master mind of the fraud.
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