The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Lagos Zonal Directorate 2, on Friday, May 16, 2025, arraigned a staff member of a new generation bank, Solomon Stephen Ufayo, before Justice Yellim Bogoro of the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, over alleged cybercrime involving N2.4 million.
Ufayo was docked on a one-count charge of cyber-related fraud, accused of impersonating a customer of the bank to unlawfully divert funds into his personal account.
According to the EFCC, the alleged offence occurred between March 10 and 28, 2025, while Ufayo was serving as a Relief Teller at an one of the bank’s branch.
He was accused of fraudulently posing as one Ogunfodunrin Omowunmi Ajoke and falsifying deposit and withdrawal slips on her account—number 2801086259—with the intent to gain financially.
Ufayo pleaded guilty when the charge was read to him.
Following the plea, the prosecution counsel, Abdulhamid L. Tukur, called EFCC operative David Ngale Gajere to present the facts of the case.
Gajere told the court that Ufayo had posted false entries into the customer’s account and moved a total of N2,404,000 into his personal Opay account using fictitious withdrawal slips.
Gajere also revealed that the defendant had submitted a voluntary statement admitting to the offence and had issued a bank draft of N2,404,000 as restitution to the affected customer.
The prosecution tendered the extra-judicial statement, bank transaction slips, and the certified true copy of the restitution draft—all of which were admitted as evidence by the court.
Justice Bogoro adjourned the case till June 6, 2025, for judgment and ordered the defendant to be remanded at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre.
