Mumbai credit-card racket busted, 4 arrested
The accused were arrested following a tip-off from an informer and were intercepted from Khar.
In Short
- Mumbai Crime Branch busted credit-debit card racket.
- 4 people arrested; main accused on the run.
- They have cases against them in Pune, Gujarat too.
Mumbai Crime Branch's unit 9 have arrested four people and busted a credit-debit card cloning racket operating in the city.
The accused were arrested following a tip-off from an informer and were intercepted from Khar.
Police also recovered 96 cloned cards, along with fake driving licenses, from their possession. The accused were identified as Nitin Ingale, Jaisingh Rathod, Faiz Raza and Vishwajeet Dambar - all residents of Mumbai.
CASES IN GUJARAT, PUNE TOO
DCP Ashok Dudhe, spokesperson of Mumbai Police, said "These people have cases against them in Pune and Gujarat also. The main accused who provided them with the information is yet to be arrested."
According to the police, the accused had cloned cards of Bank of Baroda, Union Bank, Axis bank, Central Bank of India, IndusInd Bank and HSBC and ICICI bank.
The accused used to shop on expensive clothes and bought a Sedan, which the police has recovered. The gang cloned the cards after hacking the personal details of the victims. They would then make fake driving licenses on the basis of the information for identity proof and use the cloned cards for online shopping.
A case of cheating and forgery has been registered against the four accused along with sections of Information Technology Act.
Police have launched a manhunt for the third wanted accused, believed to be mastermind of the racket.
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