Crimes

Court jails man for ATM fraud in Kaduna

The Kaduna State High Court sitting in Kaduna has sentenced one Idris Musa to ten years imprisonment for Automated Teller Machine (ATM) fraud.

Musa was jailed on Tuesday, January 9, 2024, after pleading guilty to one-count charge bordering on cheating, upon his arraignment by the Kaduna Zonal Command of the EFCC.

The one-count charge read: “You, Idris Musa, sometime in July 2022 in Kaduna within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, dishonestly induced one Idris Ismail by swapping his Zenith Bank ATM card under the guise of helping him withdraw money, an act which you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 306(a) of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law, 2017 and punishable under Section 307 of the same law.”

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The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge when it was read to him, which prompted prosecution counsel, M.U Gadaka to pray the court to convict him accordingly.

The presiding judge, Justice A.A Bello, thereafter, convicted and sentenced Musa to ten years imprisonment or pay a fine of N200,000.

The EFCC disclosed that Musa was arrested for swapping ATM cards of unsuspecting victims under the pretence of helping them operate the payment machine.

The anti-graft agency said the man was arrested in the premises of a bank with 48 ATM cards of different banks in his possession.

The Star

Segun Ojo

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