Posted on: 08:36 Sun, 06 Jul 2014



Ogun State-owned mortgage bank, Gateway Savings and Loans Limited, has been hacked by suspected internet fraudsters and millions of Naira have been carted away in the attack.

The police are conducting investigations and the state Commissioner for Information and
Strategy, Alhaji Yusuph Olaniyonu, confirmed the incident.

According to Vanguard the fraud prompted a team of armed mobile policemen to storm the branch of Skye Bank Plc, located in Oke-Ilewo, Abeokuta, on Friday around 4:30pm with an armoured personnel carrier and some patrol vans and threatened to whisk the bank manager and some staff away.

The team was reportedly led by the Senior Special Adviser on Security to Governor Ibikunle Amosun.

Customers who had wanted to use the Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) within the bank premises took to their heels while sighting the policemen.
It was learnt that the bank staff engaged the policemen in argument and were reluctant to release their manager for about two hours.

A senior official was later taken to the Ibara Divisional Police Station, Abeokuta to write a statement and was released immediately he wrote his statement.

Some other officials of the Gateway Savings and Loans Limited have also been quizzed.