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Joshua Nwabunike, an Anambra crypto trader, has narrated how N2 million disappeared from Francesca Nwabunike, his sister’s Guaranty Trust Bank account.
Nwabunike told FIJ that his family had agreed to pool their resources together in the GTB account managed by Francesca.
“My family agreed we would have a family funds account to be managed by my sister and so an account was opened under her name,” he told FIJ.
“She has a debit card but never used it, not even for withdrawals or any online transaction. Everyone including her had their personal accounts. There was no need for the money.”
Nwabunike said they did not suspect anything until his sister had difficulty transacting with GTBank’s USSD code in June 2022.
“Everything was fine until July 7, when she wanted to send money to me from the account. She attempted to use the *737* of our bank but it was not working. She tried it multiple times but it was unsuccessful.
“We assumed it was the bank server having issues and decided to leave it till the next day.”
The crypto trader further stated that the next day, a series of debit alerts thronged his sister’s phone to the tune of N2 million.
“The following day, she woke up and began to receive debit alerts from nowhere. The alerts were in multiples of N197,000 and ran into N2 million,” he said.
