Delhi
Cops say accused put skimming device in ATM machines at crowded places
Updated : Feb 05, 2019, 06:00 AM IST
Five Romanian nationals including two women have been arrested for installing a skimming device and camera at an ATM in North Delhi’s Sadar Bazar area. The police have seized over 100 cards from their possession. The accused told the police that they visited India often and searched for crowded market places in order to install the device to clone ATM cards.
According to the police on January 31 the police were informed that a skimming device with camera was found in the ATM Machine of IDBI Bank of Sadar Bazar Branch. The police scanned the CCTV footages at the ATM machine and found two women with masked faces entering the ATM and installing the skimming device along with camera in the ATM machine.
In order to catch hold of the accused the police officials directed the bank officials to let the skimming device and camera be at the ATM machine. In the noon, the police officials noticed two women entering the ATM and leaving with the device. A police team stationed at the ATM took them in custody. They were later identified as Costache Irina (27) and Caragica Elisabeta (22), both hail from Romania. During the search of both the ladies the device, camera device which are reinstalled in the ATM machine, 88 H & M Cards with entered pin codes were seized.
“On the instance of Costache, Dumito Nicolae was arrested, following which two accused identified as Lavtaru Lon and Nistor Llie were arrested as well. Two laptops, 14 cards of H&M (ATM) were recovered from their possession,” said Nupur Prasad, DCP, North.