The Nigeria Police Force, through the National Cybercrime Centre (NCCC), has dismantled a cybercrime syndicate accused of diverting telecommunications airtime and data resources, with estimated losses exceeding N7.7 billion (approximately $5 million)
In a statement, the Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, said the operation followed a petition from a Nigerian telecommunications company that uncovered unauthorised activities within its billing and payment systems.
He explained that compromised login credentials belonging to internal staff were exploited by the suspects to gain unlawful access to the company’s core infrastructure and manipulate its systems for financial gain.
According to the police, coordinated operations carried out in October 2025 across Kano and Katsina states in North-West Nigeria, as well as the capital city – Abuja, led to the arrest of six suspects.
Items recovered from the operations include two residential houses and two mini plazas in Kano, GSM and laptop retail outlets with over 400 laptops and about 1,000 mobile phones and a Toyota RAV4 vehicle all suspected to be proceeds of the fraud.
Safiya Muhammed Bello
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