Ethiopian Lion Bank (Anbesa Bank) today issued a statement warning its customers that a fake letter is being propagated on social media to tarnish the bank’s image. For the last few hours, a letter has been in circulation on social media. The letter is addressed to the Ethiopian National Defense Force from the Lion Bank President allegedly.
The document, dated August 2023, states that Anbesa bank donated 200 million birr to the Ethiopian military for military operation in the Amhara region. Since last year, the Ethiopian military has been conducting a military operation in the Amhara region against Amhara militia known as Fano. The bank issued a statement rejecting the letter as “Fake”.
“Some individuals who are trying to tarnish the good name and image of our bank are creating fake articles about issues that our bank doesn’t know and are creating them on social media. Individuals who came up with this evil idea are trying to mislead our customers and the society by putting their own fake writings on a paper that the bank issued for other purposes by the logo of the bank, the names and stamps on the paper that has been stamped by the name of the employees and the society by photoshop editing”, Lion Bank said in the statement.
The bank denied issuing any letter about conflict in the Amhara region sayin, “Among the articles that are being made widely on the social media, there is a situation where the bank has been involved in the conflict in the Amhara region. Since this act was deliberately done with a plan to create suspicion on the bank’s customers, we respectfully ask the society and our customers not to be misled by this kind of false rumor. We would like to state that we will prosecute those who are spreading this poisonous rumor”.
Lion Bank (Anbesa Bank) was established on October 2, 2006 and went operational on January 6, 2007 having 3,739 founding shareholders.
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