| Malaysian Bank Officers Investigate Chennai Credit Card Scam |
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By P. Vijian
CHENNAI, Nov 2 (Bernama) -- Officials from a leading bank in Malaysia have met top sleuths from the city's central crime branch to cull information on fake credit cards, sourced from the bank by a syndicate masterminded by a Sri Lankan.
The three officials from the risk management division of the bank based in Kuala Lumpur, arrived here last week.
Bernama learnt that among others, they viewed devices used by the syndicate to produce the fake cards in Chennai.
Indian police were not available for comment.
The arrival of the bank officals follows last month's arrest of the 25-year-old Sri Lankan, now a Canadian national, who had masterminded the credit card forgery in the southern city.
The suspect had deployed three Malaysian teenage girls to make large purchses with the fake credit cards whose information was sourced from the Malaysian bank.
At the time the cards were used to fleece stores which sold jewellery, mobile phones and electronic items, the girls were studying cosmetology at colleges in Chennai.
The teenagers, who have since returned to Malaysia after completing their course, are expected to be quizzed by Interpol on their alleged links to the syndicate.
City police have also mounted a major operation and nailed several Indian nationals and a Singaporean who allegedly worked for the syndicate.
Initial police investigations revealed that the group, using the counterfeit cards, had bought nearly RM500,000 in expensive items over the past few months.
-- BERNAMA
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