According to the EFCC, the defendant allegedly converted funds belonging to one Ernest Terkula Jor to personal use instead of investing the money as agreed.
The Abuja Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned the Managing Director of Viscount Microfinance Bank, Blessing Gozi-Anyaokei, before the Federal High Court in Abuja over an alleged fraud involving N19million and $30,000 entrusted to her for investment purposes.
Gozi-Anyaokei was arraigned on Tuesday, May 12, 2025, before Justice Y. Halilu of the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja, on a two-count charge bordering on illegal conversion and obtaining money by false pretence.
According to the EFCC, the defendant allegedly converted funds belonging to one Ernest Terkula Jor to personal use instead of investing the money as agreed.
One of the charges against her read: “That you, Blessing Gozi-Anyaokei, sometime in 2022 at Abuja, within the Judicial Division of this Honourable Court, while being the Managing Director of Viscount Microfinance Bank was entrusted with the sum of Nineteen Million Naira (N19,000,000.00) by Ernest Terkula Jor for the purpose of investment, did dishonestly convert the same to your own use in violation of the mode in which the contract is to be discharged, and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 311 of the Penal Code Act Cap 532 (Laws of the Federation of Nigeria (Abuja) 1990) and punishable under Section 312 of the same Act”.
