A troubling case of organized crime involving inmates and corrupt prison officials.
A young man was robbed January 3rd 2025 in Benin by armed men who took valuable items and transferred a significant amount of money to a PalmPay account during the incident(4m)
The victim initially reported the crime to the Edo State Police Command, but no progress was made in identifying the assailants.
On hearing on the progreses made by our super cop CSP ALIYU SHABA in exposing the killers of Paulinus Okon at Otokutu, they decided to bring their case to Ekpan Police station.
The victim had conducted a geo analysis of the PalmPay account which pointed to the Udu axis, leading to further investigation.
The DPO arrested the account holder who confessed that her boyfriend own the account.
“I met him online and we started talking and one thing led to another, he started professing love and I accepted.
He told me he works offshore and have so many staff under him. He called me early January and told me that his phone fell into the River but expecting to receive some money and asked me to help him open a PalmPay account which I obliged. Later, he sent a lady to pick the ATM of the very account from me.
On the 4th of January, I got alert of 4m and told him. Later that day, he sent account numbers to me with instruction to pay some 600k, some 1.5m some 1m etc.
The DPO decided to run advanced analysis on the accounts and traced it to Warri correctional prison.
He immediately stormed the facility with his men and some of the arrested suspects. On arrival, one of the suspect ((girl ) sighted one of the star suspects but the prison officials refused to produce the young man except one who is serving a death sentence that also participated in the robbery.
So what happened is that, inmate left the prison custody and traveled to Benin city to rob and eventually returned.
All the robbers involved in this crime are serving inmates but because we have corrupt officials, they take bribes and allow the criminal inmates to go out for operations and return.
Implementing stricter security protocols in prisons to prevent inmates from leaving custody for criminal activities is crucial.
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