Monipoint Agent, Manipulates Sold POS Machine With Chips , Creates App To Access Buyers transactions, Steals Over N16 Million
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Nemesis has finally caught up with a fraudulent Monipoint Agent,Olumide Remilekun Owolabi, who allegedly withdrew and criminally converted sixteen million three hundred and eighty one thousand naira belonging to a Point Of Sale,POS Operators, Mr. Raphael Alabi, who he had earlier sold the same POS Terminal to, after cleverly manipulating the machine with chips and App to access the Operators transactions.
The suspect has been arrested by Operatives of the Zone 2 Police Command,following a petition received by the Assistant Inspector General Of Police AIG Muhammad Ali Ari.
He is currently cooling off his heels at the detention facility of the Zone 2 Police Command, where he is telling the Operatives all he knows about the fraud.
According to the statement signed and dispatched to News Planet International by the Command’s Public Relations Officer SP Hauwa Idris Adamu , it reads : ” This deals with a case of fraud, criminal withdrawal/diversion and stealing to the tune of #16,381,000 sixteen million three hundred and eighty one thousand naira reported to the office of the Assistant Inspector General of Police through a written petition and referred to Zonal Monitoring Unit for discrete investigation.
One Mr. Raphael Alabi of ijoko road Ogun State reported one Olumide Remilekun Owolabi’ m’ who is an agent to Monipoint, sold POS Terminal to him sometimes in March 2023 and manipulated the POS terminal by adding a chip and creating an APP on his GSM phone thereby gaining access to every transaction made on the POS terminal on his phone where he made fraudulent withdrawals to the tune of # 16,381,000 between the period of 10th March to July 2023 into his personal account.
Suspect arrested and has made a Confessionary statement to the crime, investigation still ongoing to unravel more facts”.
