thirdi:

It is really amazing what one can run into in Nigeria and how corporate criminals operate in disguises in banks and other such establishment.

A long time a  acquaintance and Oceanic Bank Branch Manager approached me some time last year with a claim that he owned a coy that supplies diesel to his branch and other branch of his bank. and that coy is being run by his very close friend and successful former employee of MTN.

after many calls to me house and office i issued him a cheaque in the coy name as he directed and that was it. he stopped answering my calls and started sending me sms that his in a meeting any time i called him.[b] i traced him to the branch only to find out that he was not even a branch manager as he claimed [/b]and would not issue me the post dated cheques as he promised. it took a call at his house for him to release an agreement that he signed as a witness to the transaction and gave me a two million undated cheaque and  two other  undated cheaque as interest on my money.
after many calls to his house he went and reported that i was threatening to kill him and his family. and paid police men to be harassing me and my family.

I have since paid the cheaque in and of cause it was a dude cheaque and i did not get value. the other cuprite claims now that he got the money directly from me and is already in prison for related offences of OBT. this man is walking a free and recently moved to another bank and the other guy believes that he will serve 2 years and come out a free man to spend my money.

Is this Nigeria for you?

A long time a acquaintance and Oceanic Bank Branch Manager approached me some time last year with a claim that he owned a coy that supplies diesel to his branch and other branch of his bank. and that coy is being run by his very close friend and successful former employee of MTN.

after many calls to me house and office i issued him a cheaque in the coy name as he directed and that was it.

this man is walking a free and recently moved to another bank and the other guy believes that he will serve 2 years and come out a free man to spend my money.

mrrock:

@thirdi
Nigeria is a corrupt country. There's no institution in Nigeria that's not corrupt both private and government. There's no bank in Nigeria that's not corrupt. I have had encounters with first bank and Ecobank in which they were found to be corrupt. Ecobank is especially very corrupt.

agitator:

this is NOT [/b]a true reflection of nigeria
as the years are ticking by so is the ****** retrogressing.
[b]same thing with nairaland

crap threads everywhere, everyboard, everytime

oyb:

basically, the op paid his acquaintance over 2 million for services he cannot disclose

maybe he wanted to buy two years supply of diesel for his house

thirdi:

I have read the responses to my post and welcome the diverse opinion expressed by individuals of this forum. Someone said that the bank should track and persecute me and that is a mighty laugh. All I said in my post is the truth, maybe I was naïve in believing I could trust someone that I grew up with and that used to come eat at my parents place.  I can not disclose his name as the case is with the authorities now. While I have realized that it was a syndicate who this guy was the leader that defrauded me and not just me but other customers and even staff of his Bank but the truth still remains that he used his “position” in the Bank to carry out this actions.

The so called business idea he sold to me was that he will pay an interest of 6% on the principle sum I gave him monthly and will refund the full capital in 6 months as his coy needed more funds to expand its distribution.  I don’t think that is a greedy venture given the assurances he gave me and that he issued me post dated cheques.  I think he was sacked by oceanic or asked to resign but he has moved to another Bank.   The purpose of my post is to tell my story and seek advice on how to seek redress and recover my money as I don’t really have money to spend to recover this money. he did this using the branch and his bank.

This issues goes beyond what I took it to be initially as my life and that of my family is at threat with this syndicate. Some one should please advice me