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An Ikeja Division of the Lagos State High Court has convicted the former Managing Director of Bank PHB Plc, Francis Atuche, and the bank’s former Chief Financial Officer, Ugo Anyanwu.
They were found guilty of stealing and conspiracy to steal, even as the wife of the former MD, Elizabeth Atuche, was, however, discharged and acquitted.
The former bank MD, his wife, and Anyanwu were accused of stealing N25.7 billion belonging to the bank and were arraigned in 2011 before Justice Lateefa Okunnu of the Ikeja Division of the Lagos State High Court, with Mr. Atuche also standing trial over N125 billion alleged fraud before the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court.
He was arraigned in 2014, alongside Charles Ojo, a former Managing Director of Spring Bank Plc, on an amended 45 counts before Justice Saliu Seidu, before the judge was transferred out of the Lagos division.
The case was subsequently transferred to Justice Ayokunle Faji and the defendants re-arraigned in 2017.
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