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UBA DIRECTORS FINGERED IN CURRENT N1BILLION FRAUD + HOW BANK LAUNDERS MONEY FOR TOP POLITICIANS

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 These are certainly not best of times for top management staff of United Bank For Africa over the N1,000,000,000 (one billion naira ) fraudulently deposited in the account of Peter Ujah, a Driver attached to the e-banking department of the Area 3 branch of the bank, in Abuja. Fresh facts have continue to emerged by the day on how the top echelon of the bank are used to launder billions of naira for top politicians who are avoiding the popping eyes of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC). www.biznesswatch.com gathered that only recently, in banks Wuse, Abuja branch, the sum of N5million was paid into a customer’s account which the bank claimed was done in error. Biznesswatch.com reliably gathered that this trend is assuming a new dimension at the bank where money that is to be laundered for top ranking politicians who want to avoid the nosey Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC)’s unit, monies will be paid into a customers account deliberately and in a couple of days, pulled out to where they want to post it. If an observant customer raises alarm, they will tell him or her, “it was paid in error”. It’s the style in UBA Plc. Its not new.

A case in point is the current transactions involving N=1, 000, 000,000,00  like other previous ones, has the complexion of money laundry and internal manipulations by top management staff of UBA.

According to our usual source within UBA, familiar with such transactions, “Top management staff and Directors are daily engaged by top government functionaries, to help launder such money to avoid the anti-graft popping eyes.        What they do in turn is to use menial workers like cleaners and Drivers accounts, who are in turn hoodwinked before the money are moved out in tranches to other accounts

The case of Ujah, may not have been different, but this time the management was not fast enough in the handling of the transactions” he revealed.

Indeed, precisely on the January 3, 2009, from the statement obtained from the Bank, N=1,000,000,000,00  was deposited into the account of Mr. Peter Ujah, a Driver attached to the e-banking department, at Area 3 Abuja. As earlier reported by this medium, for crying out loud the management embarked on all forms of intimidations and shenanigans, frozen his account without any reason given to him.

Biznesswatch investigations\ however, revealed that the money paid into Ujah’s account couldn’t have been a standard practice of crediting dormant account with such funds, as Ujah ‘s account was still active.

In an interview with Ujah, the embattled Driver, who until recently petitioned the EFCC was a staff of UBA.

From the documents made available to us, Ujah was among the contract staff engaged by UBA from Norwood Executive Drivers management.

“How can they said my account was dormant, while I am still with their Identity Card and I was not sacked or redeployed?”

Continued Ujah challenged the management to produce evidence of his disengagement by UBA.

Interestingly, Ujah  whom the bank claimed was sacked has continue to received alerts from the Standard  IBTC bank where the bank had register him among the beneficiaries of UBA staff insurance  scheme.

Last week Ujah, following his petition to EFCC was invited and interrogated by the anti- graft team preparatory to the clamp down on the staff of UBA suspected to be behind the deal that have gone awry.

But in a move that smack of cover up, the management in its reactions to our story claimed the EFCC had investigated the matter and exonerated them, but the current development has punctured their claims as  Ujah on the September,30 2013 formally reported the matter to EFCC vide a petition to the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. If it is the same EFCC that we know, in a short while, the culprits behind this massive fraud will be unveiled.

biznesswatch.com

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