‘We had insiders in the banks’ – Cheque Fraudsters Nabbed In Lagos (PICTURED)

The anti-robbery unit of the Nigerian police force has arrested members of a fraud syndicate that specialize in stealing cheques of customers and using it to withdraw money in connivance with fraudulent bank staff.


The robbers whose modus operandi involves going to banks on the pretext of transacting business while looking out for customers who are careless with their cheque books to steal, or search through waste bins of banks for unused cheques or those discarded due to errors.

After their apprehension by the policemen in Ikeja, a fake letter head of the Ekiti state house of assembly and that of the state’s ministry of finance and economic development together with two dud cheques were recovered, which the suspects say were supposed to be used to procure visas.