2 POS agents were penalised for an alleged N942 million theft

Two point-of-sale (POS) employees were charged on Thursday with stealing N942 million from their business and appeared before an Ebute-Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State.

Chigozie Omeje, 26, and Irene Andrew, 29, the defendants, whose addresses were not provided, are accused of conspiracy, cybercrime, and theft on three counts.

But they entered a not guilty plea.

The defendants and a few other people still at large committed the crimes in June and July at Odugunyan, Ikorodu, Lagos State, according to the prosecutor, ASP Jimoh Joseph.

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According to Joseph, the defendants planned their theft of the money and used a POS device to trick the security system.

He said that the defendants fraudulently moved a total of N942 million to their personal bank accounts and other bank accounts while they were employed by their business, Shago POS Terminals.

According to Joseph, the offences were in violation of Section 12 of the 2015 Cybercrime (Prohibition and Prevention) Act.

According to the prosecution, the acts were also in violation of Sections 287 and 411 of the Lagos State Criminal Law of 2015.

Each defendant was granted bail in the amount of N1 million with two sureties by Chief Magistrate Mrs. F. M. Kayode Alamu.

She also stipulated that the sureties must provide proof of three years of tax payments to the Lagos State Government and that one of the sureties must be a blood relative of the defendant.

The case was postponed by Alamu until October 31 for mention.