36-Year-Old Man Apprehended With 107 ATM Cards

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Saturday, arrested a man with 107 automated teller machine cards in his possession at the Murtala Mohammed Airport in Lagos. NDLEA officers discovered the ATM cards in the man’s luggage during the outward screening of passengers travelling to Istanbul, Turkey aboard Turkish Airlines. The man also had two international passports bearing photographs of him, but with different names.

He had a Nigerian passport with the name Funsho Oladimeji Babatunde and a Turkish passport with the name Kosar Kursat, both bearing his photographs while the cards found in his luggage are 68 Citi Mastercard cards and 39 Citi Visa cards. When asked why the cards were in his possession, he said a friend of his in Turkey called him to bring the cards to him in Instabul, Turkey. He also said he collected the cards in Lagos, kept them in his bag but during search, the officer saw the cards and took him for interrogation. The man is a national diploma graduate from the Kwara Polytechnic.