Photo: Dismissed Cop Dupes Police N40m

A dismissed Police Sergeant has been arrested by the
operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Adeniji Adele, Lagos
Island, western Nigeria, for allegedly posing as a police officer to defraud
the Nigeria Police of about N40 million in eight years.

Police authorities alleged that the suspect, Victor
Afamefuna Banor, from southern Nigeria, after his dismissal from the Nigeria
Police, forged personnel emolument records, including his last pay certificates
and submitted them with fake names, ranks and Force Numbers to the Nigeria
Police pay offices in Lagos, Edo, Cross River, Kaduna, Kogi, Ogun and Akwa Ibom
state Police Commands and allegedly collected the sum of N40 million from the
purse of the Nigeria Police under false pretence.

The police further alleged that the suspect perpetrated the
fraud by transferring himself to all the aforementioned Police Commands with
fake documents and promoted himself to the ranks of ASP, DSP and SP anytime he
received information about promotions in the Nigeria police.

Police investigation revealed that luck ran out on the
suspect when he  was arrested while
wearing a  fake SP rank.

The Deputy Commisioner of Police in charge of FSARS Lagos,
DCP Chris Ezike received an intelligence report about the activities of the
suspect andy directed a police team led by DSP Solomon Igwe to fish out the
suspect anywhere he may be found.

Banor was arrested in Onitsha, Anambra State, southeast
Nigeria, and brought to Lagos for interrogaton.

After investigation, the suspect was arraigned before a
Federal High Court in Lagos on a 30-count charge of obtaining about  N40 million from the Nigeria Police under
false pretence.

The police prosecutor, Supol Charles Odii, told the court
that Banor committed the alleged offence between 2006 and 2014 in seven Police
Commands in Nigeria.

Odii also told the court that the defendant who is a
dismissed police officer forged the Nigeria Police documents and used them to collect
about N40m from the Nigeria Police pay offices with fake names, Force Numbers
and ranks in Lagos, Edo, Cross River, Kaduna, Ogun, Kogi and Akwa Ibom States.

He said the ofences the defendant committed are punishable
under the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011,  Advanced Fee Fraud and Fraud Related Offences
Act, 2006 and the Miscellanous Offences Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria,
2004.

The presiding Judge, Justice J. Abang adjourned the case
till 4 and 5 May,  2015 for trial and
ordered that the defendant be remanded in prison custody.