Nigeria, Oct. 28 -- The Special Offences Court in Ikeja, Lagos, has sentenced a former banker, Christopher Jackson Edeh, to five years' imprisonment over a N2.7 billion fraud.

The trial judge O.O. Abike-Fadipe convicted Mr Edeh on nine counts of fraudulent false accounting and unauthorised access to a computer system.

She sentenced Mr Edeh to five years' imprisonment without an option of fine on each of the first seven counts, which bordered on fraudulent false accounting.

She also imposed two years' imprisonment without the option of a fine on each of the remaining two counts relating to unauthorised access to a computer system to facilitate the commission of crimes.

The judge ordered that all the sentences run concurrently.

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