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Wednesday, Apr 20, 2005

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Held with cloned credit cards

Staff Reporter

Arrested foreigners bought jewellery, nine cloned cards recovered

NEW DELHI: Two foreign nationals, including a Thai woman of Indian origin, were arrested by the South Delhi police this Sunday on charges of using cloned credit cards for buying jewellery. The police recovered nine cloned credit cards from their possession.

According to the Deputy Commissioner of Police (South Delhi), Pravir Ranjan, the manager of ICICI Bank lodged a complaint alleging that some foreign nationals were using cloned credit cards to purchase jewellery from shops mainly located in the South Extension market. Acting on the complaint, the Kotla Mubarakpur police registered a case.

The police alerted all the jewellers of the area to inform them in case they spotted the suspects. On Sunday, a jeweller informed the police that two foreign nationals were in his shop and were trying to buy jewellery on credit cards. Subsequently, a police team reached there and on personal search of the suspects recovered nine cloned credit cards of different international banks issued in the name of one of them, identified as Toe Koon San of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. The other accused was identified as Ravinder Kaur Kukreja, a Thai national. During interrogation, the accused disclosed that they came to Delhi via Bangkok on April 13 and checked-in at a Karol Bagh hotel.

Toe claimed that he obtained the credit cards from one Chan, also a Malaysian national, following which he and Ravinder went to jewellery shops and bought ornaments worth over Rs. 5 lakhs. They later handed over the ornaments to Chen, who was later identified as San Kar Tong.

The police said Toe used to work in restaurants at Kuala Lumpur and later got involved in betting on football matches. He suffered huge losses on betting and was supposed to pay the amount to one James. Toe claimed that James asked him to accompany Ravinder, who deals in readymade garments, to Delhi, where he would be provided cloned credit cards.

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