Three Arrested Over Plans To Rob TSA Of N4,5 Billion

   

The Directorate of State Security DSS has foil a plan by some persons to steal N4.5 billion from the Treasury Single Account of the Government.
The Four men were about to hack into the  Government Integrated Financial Management Information System (GIFMIS) domiciled in the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (OAGF) to steal the money when the plan was foiled by the under cover security outfit.

The DSS Spokesman in a statement said:

 “The gang was led by one Sunny Okoh, a hacker who worked in collaboration with the trio of Uwem Udo Ekpo, a Chief Programme Analyst in the OAGF, Maxwell Ekene, a retired security operative and Dozie Egwu, based in Malaysia and who is now at large.

“The suspected fraudsters intended to use a software they had sourced and codes released to them by Ekpo to hack government accounts in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and defraud the government of this huge sum,”

The suspects have been handed over to the Economic and financial Crimes Commission for further investigation and prosecution.