Ex-Banker Jailed 39 Years Over N2.7bn Fraud

A former banker, Christopher Jackson Edeh, has been sentenced to a total of 39 years’ imprisonment for his involvement in a N2.7 billion fraud involving the alteration of bank account details belonging to customers and government-related entities.
Justice O.O. Abike-Fadipe of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, handed down the sentence on Tuesday, October 27, 2026, after finding Edeh guilty of nine counts bordering on fraudulent false accounting and unauthorised access to a computer system.
Edeh was arraigned on February 28, 2024, by the Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The charges alleged that he fraudulently altered ...