EFCC Arraigns Bank MD, 1 Other For Alleged N19m, $30,000, N20m Fraud

The Abuja Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Tuesday, May 12, 2025, arraigned Blessing Gozi-Anyaokei, Managing Director, Viscount Microfinance Bank, before Justice Y. Halilu of the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja, for alleged fraud.
Gozi-Anyaokei is being prosecuted on a two-count charge bordering on illegal conversion and obtaining money by false pretence.
Count one of the charge read: ”That you, Blessing Gozi-Anyaokei, sometime in 2022 at Abuja, within the Judicial Division of this Honourable Court, while being the Managing Director of Viscount Microfinance Bank was entrusted with the sum of Nineteen Million Naira (N19,000,000.00) by Erne...