Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is on the
trail of a group of computer hackers, who have stolen
N6.28billion, about $40million, from a new generation Nigerian
bank.
At the head of the IT thieves is Godswill Oyegwa Uyoyou, who
worked in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
department of the unidentified bank. He is now on the run,
according to a report in by EFCC. Uyoyou allegedly conspired with
others and hacked into the bank’s computers, disbursing the
funds to various accounts as they pleased. Uyoyou, who hails
from Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State, is said
to have carried out the massive heist over a short period of time.
Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, EFCC spokesman, said:
“They most likely got through to [Uyoyou] because he’s an IT
person in the bank. One Saturday, he took the ‘cyber gang’ to
the bank under the pretext that he was going to carry out some
maintenance work, allowing them access to hardware, and they
commenced to penetrate the bank’s database.”
Uwujaren said they then increased the balances of some
accounts. Sources told us that no culprits have been arrested
yet and the spokesman said “The matter is still under
investigation.” Banking industry sources however said that it is
an Abuja branch of a new generation bank.
Uwujaren also said the thieves have not withdrawn the entire
sum stated.
“It was in the process of withdrawing some of the money that
they were caught,”
he said, adding that some of the criminals are being tracked.
For now, the chief suspect Uyoyou could not be found in all the
addresses advertised by the EFCC declaring him wanted. At
Balogun Akarutu Street, off Tijani Salako, Ile Epo, Ashamu
Estate, Ejigbo, Lagos, where Uyoyou claimed to be living, there
were two houses labelled as 7a and 7b.
The probe at No. 7a revealed that there was nobody by such a
name living in any of the flats on the premises. Similarly, a shop-
owner at No. 7b who also resides in the main house alleged that
there was nobody known by such a name in any of the flats.
The heist by Uyoyou and Co. is just the latest in a string of
major cyber-theft jobs. Figures released by the Central Bank of
Nigeria (CBN) show that the nation’s banking sector has lost
over N20 billion through internet fraud in 2013 alone. In
September of the same year, undergraduates of a Nigerian
federal university infamously defrauded Union Bank Plc to the
tune of N2 billion.
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