1)
“Title/Name of Account”: “MESSRS SALMAN GLOBAL VENTURES
LTD ABUJA;
2)
Name of Depositor: “A.N. UMAR”;
3)
Total Amount in Words: “One Hundred and Sixty-Five Million
Naira”
4)
Account N0: “6013407822”
5)
Zenith Bank Plc., Jalingo Branch Stamped Received and dated “14
Feb 2005”.
PW3, Mr Olubunmi Ogunode, a Compliance Officer working with Zenith
Bank Plc. testified that his bank received an enquiry from the EFCC
regarding Three (3) Customers namely Salman Global Ventures, Alusab
Nigeria Limited and Taraba State Liaison Office and were to provide Copies
of the Account Opening Documents, Statements of Account as well as Certain
Instruments. He went through the Bank Records, where he made Copies of
the Account Opening documents for the Three Accounts as well as testifying
on the veracity of the Bank’s Computer System. The process was that, he
checked the Bank’s System Records showing the day to day transactions, and
thereafter checked the System Records, printed out the Statements from the
System Records, crosschecked what was printed out against with what
obtained from the Bank Records and he discovered they were exactly the
same. Thereupon, he certified the Printed Out Copy to be a true reflection of
the Customer’s Dealings with the Bank.
He identified the Statement of Account of Salman Global Ventures and the
Account Opening Package, which were admitted without Objection as
Exhibits H and J respectively.
He also tendered into evidence a Copy of the Cheque, which he stated
evidenced lodgment of One Hundred and Sixty-Five Million Naira (N165,
000, 000.00) into the Account of Salman Global Ventures sometime in
February 2005, and Two Deposit Slips, with one of Slips covering the sum of
One Hundred and Sixty-Five Million Naira (N165, 000, 000.00), which was
lodged into the Account on the 14th of February 2005.
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