The State Security Service has arrested a
car dealer, Ibrahim Takat, for allegedly conspiring with a
spiritualist, Nakasi Ahmadu, “to defraud the Federal Capital Territory
Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed, of N3m.”
The duo were said to have cloned the
minister’s telephone number which they used to send a text message to
Mohammed’s Chief of Staff to deposit N3m in a Diamond Bank account.
The money was withdrawn the same day.
Parading Takat in Abuja on Friday, the
Director of Operations, SSS, FCT Command, Ibrahim Halilu, explained that
the car dealer used the minister’s cloned number to obtain the money on
August 8, 2013 at Asokoro, Abuja.
He said, “Takat used the cloned phone
number to give instruction to the Chief of Staff to the minister via
text message to deposit N3m into his account number 0011141544 with
Diamond Bank Plc. The amount was withdrawn the same day by the suspect.”
But Takat claimed he knew nothing about
the alleged cloning of the minister’s telephone number, adding that the
fraud was perpetrated by his friend, Ahmadu, who is on the run. He said
Ahmadu used his (Takat) bank account to receive the money and gave him
N400,000 in return.
The car dealer explained that he gave his bank account to the spiritualist because he had been his friend for over 20 years.
He said, “Ahmadu is my friend and he
lives in Gombe; he asked me to give him my bank account for a business
transaction which I obliged because I have known him for about 20 years
and he has helped me in the past.
“The money (N3m) was deposited in my
account and he withdrew it and gave me N400,000, but I didn’t know the
money was criminally obtained.
“If I was involved in the scam, I would not have come to the SSS office when I was invited. I don’t know anything about it.”
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Abeg leave dm jo o! Dy only collected their own share of d national cake!
ReplyDeleteMy broda, even d #3m dey small, na jus 2 manage. How much the minister don defraud nigeria?
ReplyDeleteSSS please leave the young man alone.. He only collected 400'000k
ReplyDeleteMoney could be dished by ordinary text mesaage? NIGERIA WE HAIL THEE
ReplyDeleteFor defrauding a public officer of 3million they will go to jail for ever..
ReplyDeleteBut a public officer loots billions and goes free