Sri Lankan in Canada runs credit card racket in Bangalore

BANGALORE: City police busted a credit card racket run by a Sri Lankan citizen settled in Canada.

 

Police seized 205 fake credit cards of national and international banks and arrested two persons.

 

CCB officers arrested Jayakumar Samuel alias Samuel (38), a resident of Nagadevanahalli, and Hairsh alias Steven (31), a resident of Bamboo Bazaar, Mysore.

 

Police Commissioner Shankar Bidari said the accused prepared fake credit cards and used them to purchase goods and avail services in malls and big shops.

 

The accused persons were running this racket for the last two years and had committed fraud of more than Rs 50 lakh, he said.

 

Police said Jayakumar is a native of Tamil Nadu and came to Bangalore six years ago.

He ran a departmental store and suffered financial loss. He was reportedly introduced to one Shorti of Sri Lanka by a man named Suhail, police said.

 

Shorti was a resident of Canadaand had been externed from the country for some offences.

 

Police said Shorti went to Malaysiaand Singaporewhere he learnt to manufacture fake credit cards.

 

He was preparing credit cards and circulating them through Suhail.

 

The credit cards used names of ICICI Bank, Citibank, HSBC, HDFC Bank, Axis Bank, Standard Chartered, SBI, Kotak Mahendra Bank, ABM AMRO, Barclay and others.

 

The investigating team seized 35 blank cards, five swiping machines, one lamination machine, one laptop and one reader machine, Rs 27,660 and a Skoda car.

 

Police also seized fake driving licenses and PAN cards from the possession of the accused.

 

Police said they were also circulating fake driving licenses and PAN cards in the city.

Jayakumar Samuel is wanted in a case registered in Tamil Nadu by Chennai CID and was evading arrest.

 

Harish is wanted by the Hyderabadpolice.

It is also suspected that the Skoda car seized was also stolen.

 

Express News Service