A TAJ {bank} employees member has been jailed for N22.35m fraud
NewsRain Nigeria studies that an worker of TAJ Bank Limited, Janet Theophilus Danjuma, has been sentenced to 5 years in a correctional centre with out an choice of nice by a courtroom in Kano State for funding fraud to the tune of N22.35 million.
Justice S. M. Shuaibu of the Federal High Court sitting in Kano convicted and sentenced the defendant following her arraignment by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The Kano Zonal Directorate of the anti-graft fee arraigned the defendant on February 16, 2026, on a one-count cost bordering on acquiring cash by false pretence.
The EFCC informed the courtroom that Danjuma, being a employees of Taj Bank Limited, Nai’bawa Branch, Kano, obtained N22,350,000 from one Wade Bamaiyi underneath the pretext that the cash can be invested within the CASA Program of the {bank}.
The fee mentioned that the defendant transformed the funds to private use and thereby dedicated an offense opposite to Section 1(1)(b) of the Advance Fee Fraud and different Fraud Related Offenses Act 2006 and Punishable Under part 1(3) of the identical Act.
In a press release, the EFCC mentioned Danjuma pleaded responsible to the one-count cost when it was learn to her.
Following her responsible plea, the prosecuting counsel, Sadiq Huseini, reviewed the info of the case, detailing how the defendant deceived her victims by exploiting the identify of a authentic {financial} product to realize their belief.
He urged the courtroom to convict the defendant accordingly as prescribed by regulation.
Consequently, Justice Shuaibu convicted and sentenced Danjuma to 5 years imprisonment with out an choice of a nice.
