N84.6m Fraud: EFCC Arrests Fugitive Owner Of Enugu Wonder Bank, KSLEY Mega

N84.6m Fraud: EFCC Arrests Fugitive Owner of Enugu Wonder Bank, KSLEY Mega Vision

The
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Enugu zonal office has
arrested Kingsley Amechi Ubenyi, the operator of a defunct Enugu-based
Wonder Bank, KSLEY Mega Vision who is standing trial on alleged illegal
operation of a financial institution and obtaining the sum N84,600,000
(Eighty Four Million, Six Hundred Thousand Naira) from hundreds of his
victims.

Ubenyi’s arrest on Tuesday, April 9, 2019, followed a
bench warrant issued by Justice A.M. Liman of the Federal High Court,
Enugu and upheld on March 28, 2019 by Justice I.N. Buba who took over
the case having noticed that Ubenyi had yet to appear in court and had
through his lawyer, John Bigwan, brought a medical report purportedly
from Enugu State University Teaching Hospital, G.R.A. seeking leave for
his continued absence in court to answer for his alleged crime.

The
said medical report written on a seeming authentic letter head of the
hospital and signed by one Dr. Eze. C had on two different occasions,
indicated that the defendant was suffering from acute peptic ulcerative
disease and high blood pressure.

Investigation by the Commission
revealed that the said medical report was forged as the hospital
authority had distanced itself from the report stating that Ubenyi was
never admitted on any of the ailment mentioned and that there was no
consultant by name Dr. Eze C in their staff roll. .

The letter
signed by the Chief Medical Director, Prof. Hyacinth Onah further stated
that the hospital data indicated the defendant had a folder number
P269482, and not P26682 as was indicated in the forged medical report.

The
defendant, when confronted after his arrest claimed the report was
given to him by one Dr. Ugwu Joseph, a claim that was denied by the said
Dr. Ugwu who said he never knew nor met him.

Ubenyi was first arraigned by EFCC on May 24, 2017.