The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has returned a bank draft of ₦42.5 million to a 70-year-old widow and retiree, Mrs. Margret Odofin, after recovering the funds fraudulently taken from her by her bank’s account officer.
In a statement posted on its official X handle on Friday, the EFCC said the money was recovered from Mrs. Kehinde Yusuf, an account and investment officer at a new-generation bank, who allegedly defrauded the widow.
The handover ceremony took place on Thursday at the Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the Commission and was performed by Acting Zonal Director, Bawa Kaltungo, on behalf of EFCC Chairman, Ola Olukoyede.
According to the EFCC, Odofin had, in a December 2024 petition to the Kaduna office, accused Yusuf of luring her between November and December 2020 into investing in fictitious Ponzi schemes.
Yusuf reportedly promised the victim a quarterly return of ₦1.7 million, but investigations later revealed that the supposed investment was a scam designed to defraud her.
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According to the statement, Odofin later realised that the sum of N47m had been withdrawn from her account and wired to various bank accounts without her permission.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.
