POS Operator Bags Six Months Jail Term for Fraud in Maiduguri

A High Court in Maiduguri, Borno State, Thursday, convicted and sentenced one Yusuf Abubakar to six months imprisonment for the theft of N600, 000.00 (Six Hundred Thousand Naira).

Justice Aisha Kumaliya, convicted Yusuf on a two-count charge preferred against him by the Maiduguri Zonal Command of the EFCC.

The convict who is a POS operator, on the pretext of carrying out a ‘mobile banking’ transaction, fraudulently transferred the sum of N600, 000.00 to his personal account from the account of one Isa Jibrin without his consent.