A former employee
of the Intercontinental Bank Plc was on Monday arraigned before an
Igbosere Magistrates Court in Lagos over alleged forgery and theft of
N554, 200.
Twenty-six-year-old
Ajayi Oluwasegun is accused of forging the signature of a bank customer
and withdrawing the sum from his account. Mr. Oluwasegun, who is
standing trial before Magistrate A. A. Famobiwo, pleaded not guilty to
the two-count charge.
The prosecutor,
Haruna Ibrahim, a sergeant, submitted that the accused forged the
signature of one Mr. Kelvin Nwaosisi and withdrew N554,200 from his
account. He said that the alleged theft and forgery occurred between
August 2010 and February 2011 at the Agege branch of the
Intercontinental Bank.
