A Dubai based Nigerian, Yasir Salihu Abdullahi has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission after discovering 849 Automated Teller Machine cards of different Nigerian banks in his luggage.

The EFCC snoopers have started interrogating him to learn how he arrived about the cards and also the reason he had been carrying them from a country to another. He had been apprehended following a scan of his bag by officials of the Nigeria Customs Service who disclosed the questionable items and the officers subsequently alerted the EFCC's office at Kano.

He also had him on 4 ATM cards of Zenith Bank, and one all Sterling Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and First City Monument Bank.

The EFCC didn't say whether all of the cards were issued from the defendant's name. Another suspected fraudster, Ma Yongbin alias Suleiman Yunusa, a 46-year- old Chinese National was also detained on August 3 by Aviation Security in the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport as he attempted to board Egypt Air into China.

He had been detained in the Baggage checking stage where he had been discovered to have in his possession the amount of N305, 000 (Three Hundred and Five Thousand Naira ) at N5 denomination. He was finally handed over to the commission for additional investigation.

Both suspects have earned statements that were useful. They Also Have been granted bail while the investigations remains in order.

Source: https://aderonkebamidele.com/dubai-based-nigerian-yasir-salihu-abdullahi-in-possession-of-849-atm-arrested-by-efcc/