The Ibadan Zonal Office of The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday, February 18, 2020, arraigned a couple, an ex-banker, named Akinwole Oluwaseun Dosunmu, alongside his wife, Motunrayo Olanike Dosunmu for stealing the sum of N2, 740,300.92 (Two Million, Seven Hundred and Forty Thousand, Three Hundred Naira, Ninety-Two kobo).
The couple were arraigned before Justice Ladiran Akintola of the Oyo State High Court, Ibadan for alleged financial fraud.
The couple was accused of stealing the sum from the Sterling Bank Plc. Akinwole was an employee of the bank, while his wife was a customer and a beneficiary in the bank’s Third Party Acquirer Scheme.
The bank had initiated the scheme as a marketing strategy through which relatives and friends of their marketing agents were awarded a commission for bringing new customers to open and operate new accounts with the bank. Akinwole, also a marketer with the bank, was appointed to coordinate the scheme.
Apart from the commission on account opening, the referral also enjoys a certain percentage on the savings made through the accounts every month.
It was, however, alleged that while reviewing activities under the scheme in 2016, the bank discovered that most of the accounts appropriated to Motunrayo as a third-party acquirer were fraudulently tagged to her by her husband.
The investigation allegedly further revealed that the accounts were never sourced by neither of the couple, but by other third-party agents.