Stanbic Bank Ghana has assured its customers that the recent fraud case at one of its branches is being resolved appropriately and should not be a cause for alarms.
A 33-year-old outsourced worker of the bank has been declared wanted by the Ghana Police Service for allegedly defrauding scores of customers of the bank of more than GHS 900,000.
The suspect, Martha Amakye, who is said to be an outsourced worker from Noswall Management Service, a recruitment agency, absconded after the Financial Crime Control Unit of the bank found out she was involved in some fraudulent transactions.
The Head of Marketing and Corporate Affairs at Stanbic Bank, Mawuko Afadzinu, confirmed the news, explaining that it was “a rare situation which occurred because we have someone who went outside the remit and did things that were not supposed to be done and this is one that we are going to resolve”.
He explained that the suspect “appears to have gone into the business of selling other products that were not bank products and did transactions in her own private capacity using her association with the bank.”
He said some of the victims admitted that “they knew it was a very private transaction” but still subscribed to the arrangement.
He, therefore, admonished the public to ensure that “all the transactions that they conduct are transactions with requisite officials of the bank”.
“Our reputation or pedigree or standing as Africa’s largest bank is because of a long tradition of very robust financial and banking principles and discipline which we stick to religiously,” he added in an interview on Citi FM’s Breakfast Show on Tuesday, January 3, 2017.
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