A Lagos State Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced a former Fidelity Bank employee, Christopher Jackson Edeh, to five years’ imprisonment over a ₦2.7 billion fraud case involving the alteration of bank account details linked to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) and government institutions. Justice O.O. Abike-Fadipe delivered the judgment on Tuesday, October 27, 2026, after finding Edeh guilty of nine counts bordering on fraudulent false accounting and unauthorised access to a computer system. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which prosecuted the case through its…
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