The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has handed over a bank draft of N42,500,000 in favour of one Mrs Margret Odofin, a 70-year-old widow and retiree.
According to a statement shared on its official X handle on Friday, the EFCC recovered the money which was fraudulently taken from her by her account and investment officer, Mrs Kehinde Yusuf, a staff in one of the new generation banks.
The handover, which took place on Thursday was done in the Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the commission by its acting director, Bawa Kaltungo, on behalf of EFCC’s Executive Chairman, Ola Olukoyede.
The widow, in a petition to the Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the EFCC in December 2024, had alleged that Yusuf, being her account and investment officer, had between November 2020 and December, 2020, lured her into investing in some ponzi businesses.
Yusuf was said to have promised Odofin a quarterly return on the investment of N1,700,000, but unknown to her, the banker’s motive was solely to defraud her.
According to the statement, Odofin later realised that the sum of N47m had been withdrawn from her account and wired to various bank accounts without her permission.
Yusuf allegedly cut off communications with her and fled to the United Kingdom after she made inquiries about her on the transactions.
However, in spite of her flight out of the country, the EFCC traced and recovered the stolen monetary assets.
“I cannot believe this because when we reported this case in the United Kingdom where Mrs Kehinde Yusuf absconded, after defrauding me, they said the offence was committed in Nigeria, hence they advised that we report to it the EFCC, which we did and today I am singing to the glory of God because God has used the commission to wipe away my tears. I have waited for years to get my hard-earned money back,” Odofin said.
