Ex-Banker Jailed 39 Years Over N2.7bn Fraud

A former banker, Christopher Jackson Edeh, has been sentenced to a complete of 39 years’ imprisonment for his involvement in a N2.7 billion fraud involving the alteration of checking account main points belonging to shoppers and government-related entities.

Justice O.O. Abike-Fadipe of the Particular Offences Courtroom sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, passed down the sentence on Tuesday, October 27, 2026, after discovering Edeh responsible of 9 counts bordering on fraudulent false accounting and unauthorised get right of entry to to a pc machine.

Edeh was once arraigned on February 28, 2024, by way of the Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC).

The fees alleged that he fraudulently altered account main points belonging to a number of shoppers and entities, together with the Kano State Executive Energy Intervention Fund, NNPC Buying and selling Restricted, Stallion Imaginative and prescient Ltd, the Lagos State Executive Blue Line, the State Contributory Pension Account and Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu College.

All the way through the trial, prosecuting recommend, Z.B. Atiku, known as 3 witnesses and tendered a number of paperwork to ascertain the case towards the defendant. The defence known as one witness.

In her judgment, Justice Abike-Fadipe held that the prosecution had proved its case past cheap doubt and convicted Edeh on all 9 counts.

The pass judgement on sentenced him to 5 years’ imprisonment with out an possibility of excellent on each and every of counts one to seven, which bordered on fraudulent false accounting.

For counts 8 and 9, when it comes to unauthorised get right of entry to to a pc machine with intent to facilitate the fee of crimes, the court docket sentenced him to 2 years’ imprisonment with out an possibility of excellent on each and every rely.

The court docket, alternatively, ordered that the entire sentences run similtaneously, that means Edeh will serve them on the similar time somewhat than consecutively.