It's
no longer news that the banker wife of popular comedian Ali Baba, Mary
Akpobome, is the new managing director of Enterprise Bank that was
recently acquired by Heritage Bank. What many people do not know about
her flourishing banking career is that she had at one time been involved
in a multibillion naira scam that ended her career at the defunct
BankPHB where she was one of the directors.
While
she was at BankPHB, Mary was said to have been one of those who
recapitalized the bank when it needed to inject fresh funds into it and
she had put in her best. However, news was soon to filter into the
public that she quit the bank suddenly without the usual fun fare that
always follows when someone of her status leaves such an establishment
where he or she is a force to reckon with.
While
a lot of people believed she resigned honourably to face future
challenges, her sudden exit was on the other hand a topic that was
discussed in hush-hush tones back then the one-time BankPHB super big
girl was forced to resign in lieu of sack and total disgrace in 2008 as a
face-saving move.
We
learned that the bone of contention was a N10 billion loan
deal-gone-sour, though many people insist that her carelessness and
incompetence led to the granting of the loan as she supervised the whole
transaction from beginning to the end without proper collateral.
Another set of people, however, claimed that considering her experience
and dexterity on the job, she would not superintend such a bogus loans
facility without proper documents but everything smirked of fraudulent
scam which she allegedly knew about as it was the custom of directors of
BankPHB to get involved in shady deals or cut corners, perpetrating
series of fraud using series of professional tactics to steal and loot
the bank until the bubble burst.
Apart
from Mary Akpobome who got her hands burnt over the bad loan, other
directors of the defunct BankPHB were also alleged to have different
means of perpetrating their fraudulent activities. For example, if
company XYX applied for a loan of N100 billion, after sometime they
would write back the applicant declaring that the application could not
be honored due to reasons known to them.
But
this would not be the end of the application as the directors would
later use the application to grant the loan without the applicant
knowing about the deal and thereby shared the money among themselves. To
cover their fraud, they would sent the letter to CBN with names of the
applicant to make it look real. Many of these companies or individuals
got to know about this high-wire fraud when the CBN under Lamido Sanusi
published the names of bank debtors and it got to the open that they had
been scammed.
C-Global News
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