With the arrest of a 30-year-old
man, police today claimed to have busted a gang of cheats who used to clone and forge credit and debit cards of foreigners after stealing data from international banks.
Arun Kumar, the kingpin of the gang, was arrested on August 7 from Govind Puri.
Police have recovered seven card swiping machines, 26 cheque books, fake stamps, 10 PAN cards and four debit/credit cards from his possession.
"The gang used to float fake companies, opened bank accounts and obtained cards swiping machines. The cloned cards prepared after hacking and stealing bank data were then used on these machines," DCP (South-East) P Karunakaran said.
The gang stole data of foreigners in order to evade complaint and subsequent arrest in India. We are yet to ascertain the amount of money duped by the gang, he said.
The gang came under police scanner on August 5 after one Sethumadhavan, Chief Manager of Nehru Place Federal Bank branch, filed a complaint regarding cheating committed by the owner of Blue Waves Technology with the help of cloned credit and debit cards in the names of various customers of the bank.
These cheating incidents came to the notice of the bank officials after the customers concerned raised objection. In the complaint, bank officials said all the cards were of their international customers.
"During investigation, it was learnt that the company Blue Waves Technology has shifted their office from B-4, Kalkaji to some unknown place from where they were using fake cards from the POS of this company. A trap was laid through Federal Bank and Arun was arrested from Govind Puri," Karunakaran said.
Search is on to nab his four other associates, he said.
