Bank IT Worker Declared Wanted for Alleged N6.28 billion Cyber-Theft

                                                                  Photo: EFCC

A bank worker of an unnamed Nigerian bank has been declared wanted. The IT worker is been sort after by the Nigerian police and EFCC for the role he played in coordinating  co-ordinating a £25m ($40m) cyber-theft at a bank in Abuja where he worked.
Godswill Oyegwa Uyoyou, the IT banker is being sought by Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
A wanted notice claims he helped conspirators dressed as maintenance staff get into the bank so they could use computers to transfer cash.
Details of the robbery are scant but it is thought that Mr Uyoyou and conspirators entered the bank on a Saturday when it was closed and no other staff were working.
A statement on EFCC website reads

The public is hereby notified that Godswill Oyegwa Uyoyou, whose photograph appears above is wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in connection with a case of Criminal Conspiracy, Obtaining Money under False pretence and Electronic Transfer of Fund.
Godswill, an IT staff of a new generation bank, is alleged to have fraudulently connived with some scammers and hacked into his bank’s database and obtained the sum of Six Billion and Twenty-Eight Million Naira (N6.28b).
Fair complexioned Godswill is 38 years old and 1.73meters in height. He hails from Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State.
His last known address is No. 7 Balogun Akarutu Street, off Tijani Salako, Ile-epo Ashamu Estate, Ejigbo-Lagos.