A senior manager has been arrested today this afternoon after jumping several arrest traps in Entebbe.
The top manager was summoned earlier and refused to respond to the police summons after a report implicating in a fraud scam at a corporate banking hall along the Nsamizi road.
The follows a complaint by one Harriet Nakaweesa to police how her bank fraudulently “milked” her account at the Finance trust bank
Three senior bank officials are under investigations by police after the complaint pinning them down over financial mismanagement.
The police in Entebbe is investigating the bank officials including the bank manager Deogratius Mawanda, Customer care officer Imeda Namala and the sales officer Emma Victor Wavamunno following a financial fraud on one Nakawesa Harriet’s bank account at the Finance Trust Bank.
Thru her lawyers Kodili &co advocates, the bank client claims she lost her money worth shs7,000,000/= on the 27th August 2020 from her personal bank account no. 201205000734.
This amount was transacted in intervals of shs 1,000,000/=(Uganda shillings One million only) consecutively seven times to the same number +256709448879 past working hours of the bank raising suspicions of fraud.
The bank officials are under investigation following an incidence on the 26th August 2020 when the bank client suspected a wrong person accessing her bank account and rushed to the bank to close her account.
The prompted her to rush to the bank and was served by two bank staff; Imelda Namala and Emma Wavamunno who she informed about what had happened, it’s on this note that she requested them to temporarily black her account number for safety of her money.
However they objected to her request and advised her to do a pin reset for mobile banking as it will be sufficient to safe guard her money.
Relaying on their advice, she agreed and they did the pin reset right there in her presence upon signing a mobile banking change request form.
In addition the bank staff assured her that no one would access her account when the pin is changed and it’s also impossible without having her phone.
It’s on this assurance that the claimant left the bank considering the fact that the pin has been reset.
However to her surprise, she begun to receive message alerts on her phone notifying her of successful mobile money transactions of Airtel number +256709448879 for her account through the mobile wallet at about 11:52pm in the night of Wednesday 26th August 2020 crossing to Thursday 27th August 2020 at 00:35am which transactions she hadn’t done or even authorized on her phone.
And the following morning the bank client reported a case at Entebbe police under file no.CRB 823/2020 when she confirmed from the bank that actually suspicious transactions were done on her account repetitively.
