“The suspects, after successful withdrawals of the money, transferred the money into about 40 different accounts to avoid being detected. They carried out their operations at weekends and public holidays so as to evade being detected by the bank monitoring mechanisms or the owners of the accounts. They defrauded their victims to the tune of over N150m.” The SFU, however, did not disclose the banks the suspects worked for. The gang leader, Salami, denied his involvement in the fraud, adding that one Moses had contracted him to get the ATM cards. He said, “I was in an eatery at Surulere with my friends when the policemen came to arrest us and said we were fraudsters. In May this year, a friend of mine, Moses, asked me to get some ATM cards for him, but I did not demand what he wanted to use them for. “I was looking for someone that could help me get the ATM cards when I came across one Abubakar at Ibadan, Oyo State. To my surprise, he brought about 40 cards to me.” Abubakar said he got some of the cards from his friends. One of the bankers, Shola, said, “One day, my manager called me to come to the office that my car on the premises was blocking another car. When I got there, I was told someone used my password for fraud and that my two colleagues had also confessed to the crime. That was how we were transferred to the SFU last Tuesday.” Osuolale, another banker, also denied the allegation, saying he had given his faulty ATM card to an engineer in the bank to help him fix it. One of the MTN agents, Okpetu, admitted swapping SIM cards, adding that he did not know they were being used for fraud. However, MTN spokesman, Mr. Funsho Aina, said the agents were not employed by the network provider. He said, “Those paraded today (Monday) at the SFU are not MTN workers. Rather, they are employees of a distribution partner, who runs a connect store. READ ALSO! EXCLUSIVE: Armed Robbery Attack At Zenith Bank Southeast Owerri That Killed One (WATCH VIDEO) READ ALSO! 7 Women Lure Two Men Into Their Car, Rape Them Serially Inside A Bush READ ALSO! REVEALED: How Brave Policeman That Shot Dead Armed Robber In Viral Owerri Video Died READ ALSO! Why Celebrity Marriages Will Continue To Crash — Comedian, Bash READ ALSO! Shock As Married Woman Dies In Hotel Room In Enugu With Alleged Lover READ ALSO! Mercy Aigbe Visits UK Hospital For Treatment READ ALSO! OWERRI ROBBERY: Nigerian Police Under Fire For Disparity In Their Claim Versus The Viral CCTV Video READ ALSO! UPDATE: Why Nigerian Soldier Who Killed Suspected Boko Haram Terrorist Was Sentenced To Death ]]>