Fmr Banker Jailed 39yrs for N2.7b Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction of one CHRISTOPHER JACKSON EDEH on fraud charges involving over Two-Point-Seven Billion Naira.

Justice O.O. ABIKE-FADIPE of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, sentenced EDEH, who is a former banker, to a total of 39 years’ imprisonment.

The Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the EFCC arraigned EDEH before the court on February 28, 2024, on nine counts of fraudulent accounting and unauthorised access to a computer system.

During the trial, the court heard how the defendant altered bank account details of several customers and government-related entities, with intent to defraud.

The prosecuting counsel, Z.B. ATIKU called three witnesses and tendered several documents in evidence to establish the case against the defendant.

In her judgment, Justice ABIKE-FADIPE held that the prosecution proved its case beyond reasonable doubt and consequently convicted EDEH on all nine counts.

The court sentenced him to five years’ imprisonment concurrently, without an option of fine, on each of counts one to seven, bordering on fraudulent false accounting.

The court also sentenced the convict to two years’ imprisonment concurrently, without an option of fine, on each of counts eight and nine, relating to unauthorised access to a computer system with intent to facilitate the commission of crimes.