EFCC hunts bank worker that stole N6.28bn

                                 
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission , EFCC, has declared one Mr. Godswill Oyegwa Uyoyou, wanted for alleged theft of the sum of N6.28bn from a new generation bank.

According to EFCC, Oyoyou, an information technology specialist, is being sought for his alleged role in co-ordinating the cyber-theft at a new generation bank where he worked as an IT staff in Abuja.
The EFCC said the suspect helped other conspirators to dress up as maintenance staff in order to get into the bank so that they could use bank’s computers to transfer cash.
However, spokesman for the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren said no members of the gang have been caught, but that many of them are being “tracked”.
Although, details of the robbery are scanty, but it is believed that Uyoyou and other conspirators entered the bank on a Saturday when it was closed and no other staff were working.
The IT worker was key to the robbery, said the EFCC, because of the access he enjoyed to the computer systems at the bank. This was used to siphon N6.28bn into accounts of the conspirators, said EFCC. So far, the bank at the centre of the theft has not been named.

A computer security researcher at Sophos, John Hawes said the amount of cash stolen was “unusually large” but the method the gang chose was “all too common”.