A Lagos-based lawyer, Chinwe Onuoha, has been arrested for alleged forgery of documents to obtain a bank loan.
She was arrested on January 22, 2025, in Ikorodu, Lagos State.
The lawyer was alleged to have forged a lease agreement in respect of a property located at Teachers Estate in Ikorodu, Lagos which she reportedly submitted to the Bank of Industry to obtain a loan for her pure water production business.
The officers of the Special Fraud Unit, SFU, who carried out the operations, reported that they tracked down the lawyer to Ikorodu on the said date after she had been severally invited to their station to answer the said allegation of forgery of documents against her but she refused to honour the invitation.
An eye witness, who was at the scene of the arrest, stated that the lawyer wanted to run into the court premises to evade the arrest but was not allowed by the security at the gate of the court premises and was therefore nabbed on the road around 7.30pm that day.
The Commissioner of Police of the Special Fraud Unit, Ayo Omodeinde who confirmed the arrest said she was arrested based on a complaint of forgery submitted to his office in June 2024 and that the lawyer is in their custody for interrogation while the matter is under investigation to unravel the facts of the matter.
“The lawyer was alleged to have forged the Lease Agreement between her and her landlady and also forged the signature of her Landlady Ngozi Uzoma and a witness named Titilayo Opeyemi and submitted the said forged lease Agreement with the forged signatures to the Bank of Industry to borrow money,” he said, according to The Sun.