Detectives attached to Lagos State
Police Command have arrested a suspected fraudster cum robber, who allegedly
used to rob people of their Automated Teller Machine Cards (ATM) and later use
it to withdraw money.
The 33-year-old suspect,
Olawale Aderibigbe, was arrested at Surulere area of the metropolis after
much surveillance.
It was gathered that the
Intelligence Unit of the command had been on the trail of the suspect for long
before he was arrested on February 18, at his hideout.
The Lagos State Commissioner of
Police, CP Zubairu Muazu, told journalists yesterday at the command
headquarters, Ikeja that the suspect belongs to a syndicate that specialised in
robbing people of their ATM cards. The syndicate will later use the ATM to
empty the victim’s bank account.
Muazu said: “The suspect confessed
during interrogation that he had stolen and his partners, had stolen money from
many peoples’ account through ATM cards, which they stolen from people at
gunpoint. We’re working assiduously to track down other members of the gang and
brought them to book.”
Aderibigbe, who spoke with
journalists said: “ I can withdraw money, using any ATM cards as long as the
cards have security code. The security code is what I need. I have software. If
I insert the security code, details of the person would come out and the amount
the person has in the account. My colleagues and I had made money through this.”
Recalling how he was arrested, Aderibigbe explained that he was at home on
that fateful, when he received a call from a friend. “My friend called me that
he had another ATM cards. I was going there when police arrested me.”
Muazu disclosed that the Command was
making concerted efforts to arrest other fleeing members of the syndicate.
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