Police Operatives attached to A Division Bida has arrested two suspects, namely;
-Philip Adefemi 46yrs
-Joseph Micheal 42yrs, both of Masaka area of Nasarawa State.
This was made known in a statement made available to newsmen in Minna by the Niger state police command spokesperson SP Wasiu Abiodun.
The statement said an incident of ATM card swapping was reported at A Division Bida, that on same date at about 1000hrs, a victim was at a commercial bank in Bida to withdraw money, and he inserted his ATM card in the machine, but could not dispense cash.
As a result of this, a person behind the victim at the ATM gallery requested to assist him, and in the process, unknown to the victim that his card has been swapped. A few minutes later, he received a debit alert of #400,000
On receipt of the complaint, Police operatives of the Division swung into action and arrested the suspects, while one Bala escaped. In the course of preliminary investigation, forty-two ATM cards were recovered from the suspects including that of the victim, and a Mercedes-Benz C230 with Reg. No Abuja KUJ 44 NT.
During interrogation, the suspects claimed that they were coming from Abuja heading to Offa, Kwara State for a burial and they decided to spend the night in Bida, and that in the morning they tried to get some victims ATM cards from the gallery.
They confessed further that most of the cards are expired cards used for swapping, before using the victims cards for withdrawal after observing the password at the ATM machine.
The suspects are under investigation in the Division and they will be prosecuted as soon as the investigation is concluded.
