The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC says it has arrested another suspect at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport, with 576 Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cards.
The commission, in a statement by its spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, on Tuesday, December 21, 2021, said the fresh arrest came barely two hours after securing the conviction of three suspects arrested with 1,144 ATM cards at the same airport.
Uwujaren said the suspect, Khalil Bashir Lawal, was intercepted on Monday, December 20, 2021, by operatives of the commission in collaboration with Nigeria Aviation Security and the Nigeria Customs Service under the aegis of Special Task Force on Money Laundering.
Upon his arrest, it was discovered that Lawal, who was travelling to Uganda with Ethiopian Airlines, had concealed 576 ATM cards bearing different names and banks in his luggage.
The suspect will be charged to court as soon as the investigation is concluded, the EFCC statement said.
The EFCC had earlier this month disclosed in a statement that the suspects were caught trying to smuggle a total of 1,144 ATM cards out of the country.
He had said the three suspects, Abdullahi Usman, Musa Abubakar and Abdulwahid Auwalu were apprehended by EFCC operatives during separate arrests carried out between November 24 and December 1, 2021.
The suspects were thereafter charged and yesterday, the three ATM card smugglers were sentenced to six months imprisonment each on separate three count charges.
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