The police nabbed three members of a gang involved in using credit cards of foreign nationals by preparing clones of these credit cards. As many as 16 cloned credit cards of foreigners have been recovered from their possession.
DIG Raman Singh Sikarwar while speaking with the media person on Friday said that the three were nabbed from Ashoka Garden locality and they hail from Mumbai.
He informed that the accused have procured goods worth Rs 40 lakh by using the cloned credit cards.
Sikarwar further said during the investigation one computer tablet, one credit card reader and 15 physical credit cards were recovered from their possession and information of around 600 credit cards in digital form was recovered from their
possession.
The three were identified as Imran Khan(32), Ritesh Agrawal(22) and Kamal Khan(32). SHO of Ashoka Garden police station Manish Mishra said that acting on a tip off regarding few persons of Mumbai having multiple credit cards and shopping of expensive goods using the credit cards at different places in the city.
Imran was the main accused who accompanied the two for purchasing to avoid suspicion.
Imran learnt cloning of credit card through a Nigerian national a year ago and who provided details of website which would provide details of credit cards. For 100 dollars details of credit card having limit of Rs 1 lakh was provided.
The goods purchased were sold in Mumbai told the police. The bank accounts have been opened using fake documents which would be investigated.
Team would be sent to Mumbai for searching more details of the accused. The accused were sent under police custody till March 29.
Accused used the data purchased through online on old credit cards.
They have made purchase in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai and other cities. This was their second round of the city.