By Austin Ogwuda
THE female Point of Sale (PoS) operator in Delta State, Nigeria, has confessed to the Police that she was totally ignorant of the criminal activities behind a 4 million Naira deposit into her account.
Questioned in a video by the Spokesman of the Delta State Police Command, Bright Edafe, a Superintendent of Police SP, published on his X Page on Thursday, the lady (names withheld) however claimed that the prime suspect had been her regular customer but engaged in smaller dimension.
According to her, “Timothy Ogenechukwu is my customer. He collected my PoS account number. He has been doing transactions with me—maybe N2,000, N5,000 and so on.
“But in this particular instance, he only called me that morning to check my account and I saw that N4m had been transferred. My profit from the transaction was N40,000. Then I transferred N1.2 million to his account and he sent me another account to send the remaining funds”.
She claimed she had no prior knowledge that the money in question was a proceed of criminal activity, specifically a ransom payment from a kidnapped victim, saying, “I didn’t know”.
However, in that video, the Police spokesman said, “I have been talking and educating people on social media, particularly PoS operators. Any person who wants to do transactions above 500,000 naira should go to the bank.
“Whenever you ask a PoS operator if you are receiving money too much that is unreasonably high, understand that there is an element of crime in it because they are supposed to go to the bank”, he emphasized.
Source: Punch
