Nigerian national and an Indian hailing from Mumbai were nabbed by crime branch on Saturday.
The Ahmedabad city crime branch made two more arrests in the credit card fraud case today. The crime branch had already arrested four locals, Amar More, Dilip Patel, Prashant Rao and Dalpat Gohil on October 16 and recovered 60 fake credit cards worth Rs 50-60 lakh from them. The 2 new arrests include a Nigerian national Aayo and an Indian, Surjeet Singh, hailing from Mumbai. The crime branch has recovered an additional 185 fake credit cards, a card reader machine worth Rs 2500, a credit card printer worth Rs 65,000, 6 mobile phones worth Rs 12,000, 1 laptop worth Rs 20,000 and a printer ribbon costing Rs 300.
The fake credit card gang is based in Mumbai and the fraudsters would come to Ahmedabad just to make the illegal transactions with the fake credit cards. Their primary targets were the big shopping malls and the high-end design shops in the city. The fraudsters would bribe the shop accountants and cashiers to place their card reader machine along with the store card-swipe machine and pay them daily Rs 5,000-6,000 to collect credit card information of as many customers as they could.
Interrogation of the four fraudsters earlier arrested by the police revealed that the accused had already collected personal and credit card information of 53 people that the gang had already duped in Mumbai.
The investigation also revealed that the gang was much bigger than first expected with members from not only Ahmedabad and Mumbai, but also international involvement with a number of Nigerian nationals also involved.
Police investigations revealed that the gang would send fake credit cards via a courier service from Mumbai to Dilip Patel in Khambhatt, who was the operations head in Gujarat. The city police also sent a special crime branch team to Mumbai to investigate the case and make further arrests. Meanwhile, the team got to know that the 2 accused that they were searching for in Mumbai were actually in Ahmedabad to meet the other jailed criminals in the same case and through a tip-off arrested them in Ahmedabad. DCB, police inspector KK Patel has said that the gang was running an international fake credit card racket with the masterminds of the operation being all Nigerians.
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