Four suspected fraudusters, Suleiman Haruna Muhammad, Ibrahim Danazumi, Rolaand Aroko and Francis Akpabio and a contract staff of Diamond Bank Plc, Eniola Morondiya, have allegedly hacked into the bank’s website and siphoned N241 million.
The five suspects were on Tuesday arrainged before a a Federal High Court in Lagos.
In a six-count criminal charge number FHC/L/176C/2015 filed before the court alongside the statements of the accused persons by the prosecuting counsel from the office of the Attorney General of the Federation, Mr E.K. Ugwu, it was alleged that Eniola Morondiya, a contract staff and a Teller with Diamond Bank Plc, conspired at a hotel in Maryland, Ikeja, Lagos, with Suleiman Haruna Mohammed, Ibrahim Danazumi, Roland Aroko, Francis Akpabio and others at large to fraudulently transfer the sum of N241 million from two separate accounts with number 000251140 and 0002518551 in Diamond Bank Plc, to several other accounts.
Suleiman Haruna Mohammed, believed to be Eniola’s her boyfriend gave a key logger (grabber) which she plugged into her computer system in the bank for two consecutive days to clone vital details the court heard.
Using these strategic intelligence information the accused harvested credentials from the key logger to authorise the fraudulent transfer of the sum of N241 milion from Diamond Bank account numbers 000251140 and 0002518551 and later to other different banks and accounts from where substantial amounts of the money was moved to their agents.