Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have apprehended three suspected fraudsters who allegedly hacked into the bank account of one Kolawole Sobande and stole the sum of N300,000 from it.

The suspects, Obinna Abiogbe, 27; Adebayo Oluwatosin, 23; and Segun Adefunmi, were arrested on Monday, May 18th, 2020.

The Ogun State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, made this disclosure in a statement on Thursday, May 21st, 2020.

Oyeyemi said the suspects’ arrest followed a tip-off received from a Point of Sales operator, who alerted the police to the activities of the syndicate.

The PPRO said the PoS operator told the police at the Sango Division that one of the suspects approached him to transfer the sum of N100,000 from an account to his own account and hand over the cash to him.

Oyeyemi added,

But when the PoS operator demanded the suspect’s identity card, he discovered that it bore a different name to the one on the bank account.

Upon the information, the DPO, Sango Division, CSP Godwin Idehia, detailed his detectives to the scene, where the suspects were arrested.

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