EFCC, Makurdi zonal office,
has arrested three suspects for conspiracy and obtaining money by false
pretence to the tune of N7, 107, 540.00.
The suspects- Adewuyi A.
Adebayo,31; Osikoya K. Gboyega, 44 and Akintunde Ogunrinde, 47- were arrested
on September 9, 2019.
They were arrested at
different locations in Lagos State and transferred to Makurdi, Benue State. .
The petitioner alleged that
on 18th of February, 2018, he noticed his MTN line had stopped working as no
calls or messages came to his phone and the phone displayed a message saying,
‘invalid SIM card’.
He went to the MTN office
to lodge a complaint but was told to apply for a welcome back SIM that was not
successful as someone else had swapped his SIM card in Abia State.
He immediately contacted
his account officer at FCMB to inform them of the development and to change his
alert phone number to another line only to discover that transactions had
occurred on his account without his consent.
The threshold limit for
online transfers on his account had also been increased above N500k and the sum
of N7,107,540 removed from his account.
Further investigations
revealed that the suspects masterminded the alleged the fraud. The suspects
will soon be charged to court as soon as investigations are concluded.
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