A National Youth Service Corps [NYSC]member has been arrested by the police in Akwa Ibom State for allegedly receiving a fraudulent payment from a person he allegedly sold bitcoin to.
Ayodeji Felix Olaniyi, who is undergoing the mandatory one-year NYSC programme in Abak, Akwa Ibom was arrested on the 14th of January 2019 (Monday).
According to one Olowoleye Olayinka, Olaniyi sold bitcoin to a client who paid him from a hacked GTB account.
However, when he reported his suspicion to the police, he was arrested and told to produce the client.
He added
He sold bitcoin to a client who resides in Delta State. The client hacked a woman’s UBA account in the same Delta State to pay him through mobile transfer to his GTB.
He noticed the name of the client who bought the bitcoin is different from the account name that paid him. He quickly went to police station (A) Division Uyo, on the 12th January 2019 to lay a complaint to DPO about the transaction.
The DPO was not on seat so he met with IPO and wrote down a statement. On 14th January 2019 (Monday), he went back to the police station (A) Division Uyo, to ensure the DPO was aware of the statement he wrote.
However, the DPO advised him to go to his bank and confirm the transaction and to also give him feedback of what happened. But on getting to the bank, he discovered his account was frozen.
The bank then held him and police from (C) Division at Aka Etina Road, later arrested him and nothing has been done about it. The owner of the hacked account who raised the alarm that led to his arrest is nowhere to be found till date.”
