Justice AA Bello of the Kaduna State Excessive Court docket has sentenced Idris Musa to 10 years in jail for ATM fraud.
In response to the Kaduna Zone Command of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC), Musa was arrested and subsequently jailed for exchanging ATM playing cards from unsuspecting victims. His arrest befell on the premises of a financial institution, the place he was discovered with 48 ATM playing cards from totally different banks.
EFCC stated in a press release that Musa was jailed on Tuesday, January 9, after he pleaded responsible to a cost bordering on dishonest, following his arraignment by the Kaduna Zonal Command of the EFCC.
“You, Idris Musa, someday in July 2022 in Kaduna, inside the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court docket, dishonestly induced Idris Ismail by switching his Zenith Financial institution ATM below the guise of serving to him withdraw cash, a act which you knew to be false and thereby dedicated an offense opposite to Part 306(a) of the Kaduna State Penal Code Legislation, 2017 and punishable below Part 307 of the identical legislation,” the grievance stated.
The accused pleaded responsible to the cost when it was learn to him, prompting the prosecutor, MU Gadaka, to hope the court docket to convict him accordingly.
Decide Bello then sentenced Musa to imprisonment for ten years or to pay a positive of N200,000.00.
