The mobile telecom operator Tigo is again stained by a telecom fraud scandal perpetrated by one of its employees. After the dismantling in June 2014 of the fraud network on mobile credit transfers, led by four Tigo agents, the Police Criminal Investigations Division (DIC) has brought to light a new network operated by Abdoulaye Dramé, sales inspector at the telecom company.

With the assistance of his partners, Kisito Lopès, manager of a multiservice business, Fallou Samb and Mamadou Diouf, wholesalers of top-up cards, Abdouaye Dramé was fraudulently selling Tigo credits. According to the modus operandi described by the Senegalese newspaper Libération, Abdoulaye Dramé would identify the number of a top-up cards “Ceddo” wholesaler, would make this number unavailable for a while. Then, he would transfer the credit from this number to his accomplices who were in charge of selling it at a discounted price. The spoils were then shared amongst the accomplices.

It is not until a few “Ceddo” wholesalers complained, criticising the company for charging them for products not received, that management’s attention was drawn to the issue. The case was brought to the police, who after investigation, discovered the dirty dealings which cost the company several millions of FCfa in losses.