How Standard Chartered Bank Ineptitude Operations Cost Customer Multibillion Business Deal

How Standard Chartered Bank Ineptitude Operations Cost Customer Multibillion Business Deal

An innocent customer of a frontline Nigerian bank, Standard Chartered Bank has been dealt severe blows by the otherwise prestigious bank.

According to a statement released to our reporter by Strict Attorneys, the legal counsel to the of Chief Hakeem Adebayo Shobande, a client of the bank who was denied a visa for a trip to Italy by reason of the bank’s ineptitude.

The information made available was that the bank denied the existence of Hakeem Adebayo Shobande account upon request from them by the Italian embassy in Nigeria via email dated 10th October 2023 and thereby costing him a time based appointment in Italy where he had committed a substantial non refundable amount.

All on the premise of the bank’s gaffe where his existence was bluntly when the Italian embassy contacted them about the duly signed account statement he collected from the bank which was presented as part of required documents for his traveling process.

With the damage and loss he incurred because of the denied visa Chief Hakeem Adebayo Shobande because of the bank claimed ignorance which made the embassy to initiated a criminal investigation against the honest businessman thereby occasioning the confiscation of his International Passport by the Nigerian Police Special Fraud Unit. By extension, he could not get entry visas for other countries that were ready to issue same to him, thereby scuttling his business and leisure travel plans.

According to Mr Taiwo Onayinka, a partner in the law firm of Strict Attorneys, Chief Shobande has instructed his lawyers to seek redress for the bank’s wrong doing in a competent court of law.