Man Remanded For Defrauding Police Officers N4.8m

One Shirhabil Abubakar, a resident of Soro, Ganjuwa local government area of Bauchi State, has been remanded for allegedly defrauding 20 police officers N4.8 million in Bauchi.

LEADERSHIP learned that the suspect disguised as a worker and payroll officer of Links and Mutual Microfinance Bank to fraudulently advertise the bank as well as an instant loan offer to policemen attached to Ningi Division, thereby swindled 20 officers N4.8 million.

Magistrate Haruna Abdulmumini Mamman of Bauchi Magistrate Court 8 ordered that the suspect be remanded in a correctional facility in Bauchi before the next hearing to allow both parties in the matter access to legal advice.

The police prosecutor, Yusuf Usman, told the court that 20 serving police officers attached to the division applied and requested various amounts from Shirhabil’s fraudulent employers after supplying one Umar Nasir with information on the order of Shirhabil to process and disburse the loans into the various bank accounts of their victims.