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The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee, EFCC, has arraigned one Michael Anan Onimisi earlier than Justice R.M Aikawa of the Federal Excessive Court docket, sitting in Kaduna for creating a software program code-named: “Bee-Leaf” and “Actual-Eve” to defraud First Metropolis Monument Financial institution Plc, the sum of N17,785,010.75.
Onimisi was accused of creating the software program to hack into the safety measures of the financial institution to defraud it.
He was arraigned on six-count fees bordering on web fraud and cash laundering.
One of many counts reads “that you simply, Michael Anan Onimisi, someday in June 2023, in Kaduna inside the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court docket, did immediately retained the entire sum of N17, 785,010.75 (Seventeen Million, Seven Hundred and Eighty-5 Thousand, Ten Naira and Seventy-5 Kobo solely), from First Metropolis Monument Financial institution Plc, which funds you knew varieties a part of the proceeds of an illegal act, and thereby dedicated an offence opposite to Part 18(2)(d)of the Cash Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2022 and punishable underneath Part 18(3) of the identical Act”.
The suspect pleaded not responsible to the six-count fees after they have been learn to him.
Prosecution counsel, N. Salele, requested for a trial date and additional prayed the courtroom to remand the defendant at a Correctional Centre earlier than the graduation of trial.
In the meantime, defence counsel, Rabiu Mohammed knowledgeable the courtroom of an utility for bail earlier than the courtroom. Salele objected, pleading for extra time to check and reply to it.
After listening to the arguments of each counsels, Justice Aikawa thereafter adjourned the matter until October 19, 2023, for listening to on the bail utility and December 6, 2023, for graduation of trial.
