Mumbai: International credit card cloning racket busted, 4 held
On January 11, 2012 Times of India reported that the city crime branch has busted a major international credit card cloning racket with the arrest of four persons who, along with some foreigners, allegedly duped several US nationals of Rs 74 lakh in cash. Acting on a tipoff, crime branch unit 8 on Tuesday arrested four suspects and recovered 26 American Express Bank credit cards from them. The four have been identified as Mohammed Irfan Bhendle, Shaikh Mohammed Shaikh alias Papa, Mohammed Isaac Shaikh and Abdul Razak Mehtal. They have been booked for cheating, forgery, breach of trust and under Section 120 of the IPC (criminal conspiracy) and will be produced before the local court on Wednesday.
The original article can be found at Times of India.



