NewStats: 3,261,627 , 8,174,547 topics. Date: Thursday, 29 May 2025 at 07:59 PM 5f5lk

The Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced cashier, Tunde Abdulramon, to five years’ imprisonment for his employer’s N64,420,900 to marry a new wife and also for opening the same kind of his employer’s business for his new wife.

Justice Raliat Adebiyi who handed down the sentence also ordered the convict to make restitution by returning all the properties he bought while in his employer’s establishment and also the money that he stole.

The convict was arraigned on August 19, 2013, on 11 counts which bordered on stealing and fraudulent false ing, preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

The offences committed contravened Sections 390 and 335 (d) of the criminal laws of Lagos State 2003.

Abdulramon’s duty as the cashier of Prime Grocers International Limited, a company selling wholesale and retail consumer goods located in the Oke Arin area of Lagos State, was to collect payments for invoices raised by sales representatives from customers, document them in his cash and then lodge monies collected into the company’s designated bank .

The convict, instead, was accused of deleting the invoices and diverting large sums of money paid by customers and lodgers until the company’s managing director discovered the fraud in 2012 after an audit of the computer software was collected following a tip-off that the convict had been deleting invoices.

Abdulramon committed the offences between January 2009 and 2012, when he was discovered to be defrauding his employer.
During the trial, the prosecution called six witnesses, including the complainant, Constance Obi, who told the court that she met the convict in 2002 when the company started importing goods for distribution.

She told Justice Adebiyi that Abdulramon was one of the casual labourers who discharged goods from the container, but that in 2004, he approached her for assistance and then he was permanently employed at the company.

The witness testified that the convict’s duty in 2004 included picking and packing goods for customers before he was promoted to a cashier.

Obi further testified that she received an anonymous call in November 2012, telling her to check the cashier in her store, Tunde Abdulrahmon, as he is a criminal because of some properties that he recently acquired, vehicles, and a new wife.

She also told the court that three days after she received the call, the convict came to her office to tender a resignation letter, which she refused to collect.

The complainant stated that it was thereafter that she checked the computer’s audit trail that filtered the convict’s identification and printed out a report that showed that he had been deleting invoices.

But the convict in his defence denied the allegations against him.
Delivering her judgment, Justice Adebiyi found the convict guilty.

She held that the evidence was that the complainant was unshaken and the prosecution was able to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the convict altered the company’s record.

The judge held that the convict was the mastermind in the deleting of all the invoices and diverting payments made by customers to both his personal and business s.

“Abdulramon took advantage of the level of the trust reposed by the chief executive officer of the company (complainant), the offence was also committed continuously and repeatedly for over a period of four years.

“The court finds the level of culpability of the convict to be high; as regards the harm caused, the court finds that the acts of the convict ought to have caused a degree of significant economic loss to his employer although the employer appeared not to have realised this for four years.

“The amount stolen was of significant value and the convict was also involved in conducting a similar kind of business to that of his employer, whilst still in employment therefore creating a conflict of interest,” the judge held.

“Tunde Abdulramon is hereby sentenced on counts one to nine, to two and half years and counts 10 and 11 two and half years, to run concurrently,“The court hereby orders the disposal of properties acquired by the convict that was acquired with proceeds of the offence and payment of proceeds to the complainant,” Justice Adebiyi held.

https://punchng.com/court-jails-cashier-five-years-for-defrauding-employer-n64-4m/?amp

Cashier from hell. Despite the trust of your employee. From just ordinary casual labour and someone trusted you with that exalted position but what did you do?
Evil will continue to beget evil. Go and do the time.

Folks like this are so ungrateful

Greed and lack of satisfaction in what he was earning.
Temptation of handling money.
He stupidly allowed the spirit to enter him.
Sure, the new wife knew what he was doing.
Ought to have been brought to court as an accomplice.

Ok

That's a lot.

People like this makes things hard for others coming after them.

Make everybody get out

Nigerians doing Nigeria things.

If person fit chop private company like this, come imagine say the guy na Governor.

I hope the woman he intends to marry would have the good sense to wait for him for 5years?
Women driving men to their doom since 15BC

Nice

Go and do your years

Ok

This is barbaric.....


You stole and even envy his kind of business that you decided to have your own wife the same business.


But how did the high court handle a case from 2013 and then deliver it's sentence on 2023?

Juju will make u invincible.Your boss will turn deaf ear to your accusations and d company won't feel your looting. People will even give you huge money and forget. You will disturb them to collect back their money but they won't.

But when it expires, d eyes of your victims will be opened. Those who have money with you will frustrate you and collect their money. It will become a payback period that you might be left with nothing at d end of d day.

how dem take dey do-am?

It is baffling that someone has been deleting invoices and not making remittances worth the employer’s N64m to the company's bank for a span of 3 years and the company did not pick that up until the anonymous call?

Such a huge amount of money from your employer nawa o, people get mind o. five years imprisonment small self....


Good riddance to bad

How much be him salary

Imagine such huge amount, nawa o..,so tell me what the said wife would be doing for 5 years before he regains freedom, well always use your head

Lol we don't even know Wu to trust again....

Some of these employees are plain evil

Why post a 2013 case in 2023?

only five years?

Addme:

https://punchng.com/court-jails-cashier-five-years-for-defrauding-employer-n64-4m/?amp

This was how southwestern ants and cashiers killed leventis stores and Kingsway

Originalsly:
Why post a 2013 case in 2023?

No news again on NL, most topics are recycled

64.5milla in 2012 is about $400k. Today. That is about $60k.

But why did it take so long to have this prosecuted? Has he been languishing in a cell since.

When thieving employees spend, you'll think they own the town. No wonder why a customer reported him to her. They can never keep a low profile for long.

How the woman sef go employ semi-illiterate as her cashier just leaves one dumbfounded

Opportunity make a thief , the thief who has no opportunity to steal consider himself an honest man 



Dont come here to feel u are the honest person so stop judging

So no plea bargain for him

When will our politicians starts getting this Kind of treatments