A 46-year-old former Sterling Bank staff, Jacob Bonet, has been remanded by a Magistrate Court in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, at a correctional facility for allegedly defrauding his 86-year-old uncle of N14m.
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corp charged Bonet with theft, cheating, impersonation, and criminal misappropriation.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the offense was reported to violate the provisions of sections 270, 307, 142, and 294 of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law.
The prosecutor, Mr Marcus Audu, told the court that Aboshio Bonet, the complainant, reported the matter at the Corp’s office in Kafanchan on March 17.
Audu said that in 2015, the complainant, a resident of Tuyit Kagoro in Kaura Local Government Area, was advised by the defendant to open an account with Sterling Bank, Kagoro, where he worked as a marketer.
He stated that the complainant prevailed upon and opened the account based on the defendant’s advice.
He said that the defendant then proceeded to make an ATM card with the complainant’s details without his consent and transferred the sum of N14m from the complainant’s account into his account using the ATM.
According to him, the defendant confessed to committing the crime during the investigation.
However, he pleaded not guilty when the charges were read to him in court.
Subsequently, the prosecutor urged the court not to grant the defendant bail as the complainant gets traumatized each time he sees the defendant.
In the ruling, magistrate Michael Bawa adjourned the matter until May 29 to decide on the defendant’s bail and commence the hearing.
