Lady Swaps ATM Card Of Handicapped Woman, Withdraws N2m

By Adadareporters

The Anambra State Police Command says it has commenced  investigations into an alleged swap of the automated teller machine card belonging to a handicapped woman by a lady pretending to be assisting her.

The incident occurred at a commercial bank at Nnewi.

The state police command, in a release by its public relations officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, on Thursday, said it intercepted a trending video of the incident. The victim was identified as a 58-year-old-handicapped woman.

SP Ikenga said the victim was debited the sum of N2,000,000 in parts shortly after the swap.

According to him,  the command has commenced  investigations into the incident, and called on anyone with useful information, especially residents of Nnewi and environs, to help in identifying the suspect for possible arrest and prosecution.

Quoting the release, “Preliminary information reveals that the  unidentified lady suspect disguised herself to assist the victim and swapped the ATM card of the victim and a few minutes after the suspect left the ATM spot, the victim received several debit alerts totaling N2,000,000.”

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Nnaghe Obono Itam, has directed the Public Relations Officer of the command to contact the victim for necessary information to aid the investigation.

The CP further directed that all intelligence gathering tools of the command be deployed to identify the suspect and bring her criminal gang to book.

The trending video showed the lady, wearing a red top, smartly swapping the card and leaving the scene immediately her goal was accomplished.