The suspect, Okonkwo Nwachukwu, was
arrested after he allegedly attempted to open another savings account at a
Zenith bank branch at Amuwo Odofin, Lagos.
Mr. Nwachukwu claimed the multiple
accounts were to enable him beat the government’s cashless policy, to allow his
business run efficiently.
But a police statement on Sunday
said that Mr. Nwachukwu presented an already completed savings account opening
package bearing the name of Obiozor Ifeanyi and identified himself as such with
a National Identity Card.
“While the Customer Service office
was checking the documents, the suspect went to the Marketing Unit and
collected another savings account opening package and completed same with
another name Ogueji Nnamdi and returned to the Customer Service Desk and
presented same for account opening with another National Identity Card bearing
Ogueji Nnamdi,” the statement said.
“This attempt to open another
savings account within minutes with another identity, made the Customer Service
Officer to be suspicious and consequently, she decided to search the system
with phone number 08162502677 supplied by the customer and discovered that the
same person had already opened about twenty-five (25) savings account at
various branches bearing different names.
“It was also further alleged that he
opened and operates a corporate account number 1012000129 belonging to Chukon
Integrated Limited and he also identified himself as Okonkwo Nwachukwu when he
opened the said account.”
The police said the suspect, who is
from Okija in Ihiala local government of Anambra State, is into cargo business
and accompanies goods from China to Lagos.
“The suspect confessed to the
alleged crime but stated that the multiple accounts he opened was to enable him
run his business successfully. That the cashless policy does not allow him to
withdraw huge sum of money in one account and as such, he was advised to open
multiple accounts so as to spread his money,” the statement, signed by Ngozi
Isintume-Agu, Public Relations Officer, SFU, said.
“He added further that he has N50,
000.00 each in 15 different accounts while the remaining accounts have N20,
000.00, N10, 000.00 and N5, 000.00 respectively.
“He equally confessed that the
National Identity Card and PHCN bills were all forged by one Pepper who is
still at large. The suspect came back from China on 27th January 2014 and
started the multiple account opening from 5th February, 2014 to 7th February
when he was apprehended,” the police added.
Mrs. Isintume-Agu said that police
are continuing their investigation to unravel the suspect’s motive behind the
multiple account opening.
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