The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has brought charges against Michael Anan Onimisi for allegedly creating a software named “Bee-Leaf” and “Real-Eve” to defraud First City Monument Bank Plc of N17,785,010.75.

Onimisi stands accused of designing the software to breach the bank’s security measures with the intention of defrauding it.

He faces a total of six charges related to internet fraud and money laundering.

One of the counts reads, “that you, Michael Anan Onimisi, sometime in June 2023, in Kaduna within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, did directly retain the total sum of N17, 785,010.75 (Seventeen Million, Seven Hundred and Eighty-Five Thousand, Ten Naira and Seventy-Five Kobo only), from First City Monument Bank Plc.

Which funds you knew forms part of the proceeds of an unlawful act, and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 18(2)(d) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2022 and punishable under Section 18(3) of the same Act.”

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The defendant pleaded not guilty to all six counts. The prosecution counsel, N. Salele, requested a trial date and asked that the defendant be remanded in a Correctional Centre until the trial begins.

On the other hand, the defense counsel, Rabiu Mohammed, informed the court of a pending bail application. Salele objected and requested more time to review and respond to it.

Justice R.M Aikawa subsequently scheduled the bail application hearing for October 19, 2023, and the trial commencement for December 6, 2023. The defendant was ordered to be remanded in the Nigerian Correctional Centre in Kaduna State.