Police operatives attached to the Zone 2 Command has arrested one Olumide Remilekun Owolabi for allegedly stealing N16, 381, 000 from a POS agent.
Suspect was reported to have been arrested after complainant reported to the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 2 Command.
“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.”