One Odiba Monday has been sentenced to two years behind bars by a Benin High Court for defrauding an unsuspecting woman of the sum of one million and forty-one thousand naira.
The Convict had between 2nd and 4th February 2019, in Benin City, posed as a bank official and called the victim to request for her ECO bank security pin details with a view to updating the account but ended up clearing the money in the account.
Odiba Monday who worked with two other accomplices now on the run, was apprehended at the premises of Polaris Bank in Owo, Ondo State, while trying use his ATM card to withdraw the sum of six hundred thousand naira, unknowing to him that bait had b placed on his First Bank account.
Prosecuting Counsel of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, tendered some documents for the bank transactions including that of the two accomplices who made away with the sum of two hundred thousand and three hundred and thirty-nine thousand respectively.
The Convict, however, pleaded guilty to the offence and the Presiding Judge, Hon. Justice Efe Ikponmwoba, accordingly sentenced him to two years jail terms with an option of fine of two hundred thousand naira, pursuant to the Edo State plea bargain agreement.
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