A 38-year-old Nigerian IT worker is on the run after being accused of helping a gang steal Naira 6.28 billion ($38 million) from an Abuja-based bank.
Godswill Oyegwa Uyoyou, who was a staff member of the unnamed bank, is wanted by Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in connection with the crime.
Last week, the EFCC said that Uyoyou is a key suspect regarding charges of "criminal conspiracy", "obtaining money under false pretence" and the illegal "electronic transfer of fund(s)."
"Godswill, an IT staff of a new generation bank, is alleged to have fraudulently connived with some scammers and hacked into his bank's database and obtained the sum of Six Billion and Twenty-Eight Million Naira (N6.28b)," says the EFCC in a wanted note.
"Fair complexioned Godswill is 38 years old and 1.73meters in height. He hails from Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State.
"His last known address is No. 7 Balogun Akarutu Street, off Tijani Salako, Ile-epo Ashamu Estate, Ejigbo-Lagos," says the EFCC.
The EFCC has disclosed little information about the crime.
But reports have quoted EFCC officials as saying that Uyoyou helped a cyber-gang physically enter the bank on a Saturday. The group then allegedly increased amounts of bank accounts belonging to the gang.
In January this year, EFCC chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde, publicly said that in 2013 more than 100 cases of cyber crime were reported to the commission.
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