POLICE ARREST FAKE ATM CARD GANG
Pattaya police announced on Saturday the arrest of 10 men all involved in a fake ATM card operation. The leader, 27 year old Ivan Georgiev from Ukraine was among the gang of young men from Iran, Belarus and Thailand. A total of 348 fake cards and a computer were confiscated along with a Honda Jazz car and a pickup truck. They were arrested at a number of places around Pattaya and Jomtien after receiving information and CCTV footage from the Siam Commercial Bank about their thieving antics by withdrawing cash from ATMs around Pattaya and Banglamung. It was estimated that over a few days the gang had withdrawn 20 million baht from machines, and the gang leader confessed that they received 5% of the takings.
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