Omotayo Igbosanu, a principal witness in the case of alleged N8
billion CBN currency scam on Wednesday told a Federal High Court in Ibadan that
two FCMB employees stole N54 million.
The News
Agency of Nigeria reports that the two FCMB employees, who allegedly connived
with some CBN staff, are Kehinde Fatokun and Olukunle Sijuwade.
Testifying
before Justice Joyce Abdulmaleek, the witness said that 10 boxes which were
supposed to be containing N10 million each meant to be destroyed were either
replaced with cut newspapers or lower denominations.
Mr.
Igbosanu added that the CBN lost a total sum of N54 million to the short change
because the accused persons only left N46 million in lower denominations to be
destroyed.
He further
stated that prior to the isolation of the 10 boxes in August 2014, a box sent
from FCMB was discovered to be containing cut newspapers instead of N1,000
denomination notes.
According
to the witness, the inspection of the boxes was done in the presence of
representatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and
other stakeholders.
Justice
Abdulmaleek, however, adjourned the case till February 27 for continuation of
trial.
Messrs.
Fatokun and Sijuwade as well as Kolawole Babalola, Muniru Olaniran and Kayode
Togun had since 2015 been standing trial over multiple charges bordering on
conspiracy, forgery, stealing and recirculation of mutilated N8 billion at the
Ibadan branch of CBN.
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