According to the police spokesperson, “The suspects often collects tuition fees from the students in full, but will pay a lesser amount into the State’s Treasury Single Account (TSA) and go further to intercept and manipulate the electronic transaction receipts from the TSA to read complete payment.”
The statement said, “So far, the suspects have short-changed over 300 students of KASU and the total amount involved is put at over N60m, which the principal suspect Muhammad Uthman Busari, used in building and furnishing a house, purchase of a car, electronic appliances, gadgets and plots of lands in both Kaduna and Kwara states.”
Hassan said the suspects have since been charged to court for prosecution.
He added that in order to checkmate the activities of cyber related crimes in the state, the police commissioner, Adamu Ali, has established a cybercrime unit to facilitate the investigation of such crimes and other related offences.
He said, victims of social media accounts hacking, fake purchase alerts, deceptive social romance and cryptocurrency/forex frauds, among many other offences should forward their complaints to the police commissioner through the newly created unit for diligent investigation.
