Three bankers who are members of staff of a commercial bank in Enugu have been arrested by operatives of the state police command for criminally conspiring to steal and using the identity of an Australian based Nigerian to commit fraud.

The suspects Ndulaka, Ifeanyi and Philip according to the police spokesperson Daniel Ndukwe, withdrew the sum of four million naira from the victims account through fraudulent means, before they were arrested by the Central Police Station of the command following an alarm raised by the management of the bank after detecting the fraud.

The suspects according to the police confessed to the crime saying they carried out the fraudulent act alongside others at large after collecting personal effects of the victim, before using the USSD banking code to withdraw the money from his account.

The three suspects has been charged with conspiracy, identity theft, forgery and fraud before the Enugu North district magistrate court of Nigeria.

The Enugu state police commissioner Kanayo Uzuegbu appreciated the bank for its cooperation in exposing the fraudulent activity, and urges the public to exercise caution in managing personal identification information to prevent falling victim to similar crime.