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Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja has expressed displeasure at some financial institutions in Nigeria and had hinted that culpable banks aiding fraud should have been prosecuted.
According to the Judge, Fidelity Bank Plc and others were culpable for aiding fraud, according to wat the judge said while handing down judgment in a case of N2billion fraud involving a former chairperson of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, PRTT, Abdulrasheed Maina and noted that Fidelity Bank Plc and others were used by Maina as “conduit” to defraud pensioners ought to have been charged alongside Maina.
He said, “Fidelity Bank provided the channels with which the convict (Abdulrasheed Maina) used in defrauding the federal government”, adding that the license ought to have been withdrawn as the bank benefitted from the proceeds of illegal transactions.
Abang
said this on the premise that the banks abdicated their responsibilities by
failing to carry out due diligence to establish the true identities of persons
in whose names Maina opened and operated the fictitious bank account, as he was
of the view that Nigeria is in urgent need of national rebirth to address the
prevalence of monumental financial fraud in Nigeria’s public sector.
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He said while the convict lived in opulence at the expense of pensioners, his victims died in penury in Nigeria.
Justice Abang declared that the convict, through the assistance of Fidelity Bank Plc, deprived the pensioners that gave their all to this country in their youthful age, their legitimate earnings.
“Whereas
the convict was feeding fat on their sweat faraway in Dubai, the United Arab
Emirates (UAE), buying choice properties, driving bulletproof cars, living in
affluence beyond his legitimate earnings. “An abnormal situation requires
drastic actions to send a message to those that believe in dishonesty to have a
rethink; turn a new leaf, he advised.
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