The Special Fraud Unit, Ikoyi, Lagos State, has
arrested a 39-year-old trader, Okonkwo Nwachukwu, for allegedly opening
multiple accounts with Zenith Bank, under different identities. The police said the action was meant to defraud
financial institutions and unsuspecting members of the public.
A statement by the SFU Police Public Relations
Officer, DSP Ngozi Isintume-Agu, said the SFU Commissioner of Police had
received a petition from the bank on February 12, 2014.
It reads in part, “The petition alleged that
Nwachukwu had appeared at the Amuwo Odofin branch of Zenith Bank to open a
savings account and presented an already completed savings account opening
package with the name, Obiozor Ifeanyi, and identified himself as such with a
National Identity Card.
