Francis Atuche
Elizabeth Atuche
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has accused a
former managing director of Bank PHB, Mr Francis Atuche, of using
depositors’ funds to pay N45 million in church tithes.
Lead prosecution counsel, Kemi Pinheiro, today made the accusation
at the Lagos High Court, sitting in Ikeja, while leading in evidence a
key witness, Mr Solomon Abolaji Ogunsola, a former staff of PHB
Mortgages Limited. Atuche paid the money from an account of PHB
Mortgage Limited.
Pinheiro presented documents in court, some of them e-mails sent as
an order to release the sum of N35million to St. Monica Catholic church,
Ibusa, Delta State, and another sum of N10million to another St.
Augustine Catholic Church. Ogunsola told the court that Atuche sent the
money to the two churches in Delta State because he hails from the
state.
Ogunsola also admitted knowing two companies: Claremount Nigeria
Limited and Claremount Asset Management. He said that Claremount
Nigeria Limited had a call account with his bank and the account was
owned by Atuche.
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