Police nabs lawyer in Lagos for allegedly forging documents to obtain bank loan

Operatives of Police Special Fraud Unit (SFU), Lagos, have nabbed a Lagos based lawyer, Barrister Chinwe Onuoha, for alleged forgery of documents to obtain a bank facility.

The arrest occurred in the evening on January 22, 2025 in Ikorodu.
The lawyer was alleged to have forged lease agreement in respect of a property located at Teachers Estate in Ikorodu, which she reportedly submitted to the Bank of Industry to obtain a loan for her pure water production business.

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 honours the invitation.

An Eye witness, who was at the scene of arrest, stated that the lawyer wanted to run into the court premises to evade the arrest but was not allowed by the securities at the gate of the court premises and was therefore nabbed on the road around 7.30pm that day.

Confirming the arrest, the Commissioner of Police of the Special Fraud Unit, CP Ayo Omodeinde, stated that the lawyer was arrested based on a complaint of forgery submitted to his office since June 2024 and that the lawyer is in their custody for interrogation while the matter is under investigations 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.

“She forged someone’s documents and attempted to unlawfully claim a woman’s house, using the forged documents to obtain a loan from the Bank of Industry. The two women are friends; the person gave her the house for free. She lived in the house, but then tried to convert it into her own property. She even took the woman to court, claiming that she had bought the house from her for N2.3 million, without ever receiving the documents. However, these are the same documents she later forged.

“In her petition to the court, she falsely stated that the woman had given her the documents and asked the court to assist her in obtaining them. This is the same forged document she used to secure the loan from the Bank of Industry.

“She was arrested by the police, not abducted,” she said.