Suspected female fraud banker forfeits properties to FG

A female banker in Kano State, Nigeria, Yagana Ibrahim Bukar, has shown that what a man can do, she too can equally do with perfection. But her expertise in the fraud business has landed her in trouble with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, which secured an order of the Federal High Court, Kano, for the forfeiture of her properties worth millions of naira and scattered all over the city and Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.

According to the Head, Media & Publicity, of the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, Bukar who also goes by the name Aisha Shettima Noor, was alleged to have forged various personal and official documents which she used in withdrawing huge sums of money from an Azman Oil and Gas Limited account domiciled with one of the new generation banks in Kano, while working in the bank as the Account Officer of the company in 2013.

But the long arm of the law caught with her when the fraud was uncovered and after investigations, she was indicted by the court and as her punishment, assets including various sums of money stashed in three different bank accounts, a Honda Accord car with registration No. BD 496 NSR, a Toyota Matrix Car with registration No. FGE 122 AE and a Shop with goods situated at Badawa Layout, Kano, as well as a building in the FCT, were all forfeited by her.

The forfeiture order followed the refusal of the accused who is being prosecuted on two separate criminal charges bordering on money laundering, stealing and obtaining by false pretence, to present herself for trial after she was granted bail upon arraignment.