Personnel of Nigeria Customs Services on Wednesday held a man with 5,342 Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cards at the Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano.
The suspect identified as Sanusi Labaran was arrested minutes before boarding an Ethiopian Airlines flight to Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
The Customs Service said the suspect has been handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
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Similarly, a Dubai-bound passenger was apprehended with 2,886 ATM cards at the Murtala Muhammad International Airport, Lagos, last month.
Kano Comptroller of Customs, Ahmed Nasir, while briefing reporters said the ATM cards of various banks, were hidden in two handbags containing beans
Nasir said Labaran, the cards and the bags have been handed over to the EFCC zonal head, Sanusi Aliyu.
Aliyu said the anti-graft agency will try to unravel why he had so many ATM cards on him, and why he wanted to ship them from Nigeria to another country, as well as who might be his sponsors or collaborators.
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