23 credit cardholders’ money withdrawn

Tuesday, 29 January 2013 00:54 - - {{hitsCtrl.values.hits}}

By Lakmal Sooriyagoda

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has commenced an investigation into a credit card fraud where money belonging to 23 local credit cardholders has been withdrawn fraudulently without their knowledge after stealing their credit card data.

A chief manager in charge of the credit card division attached to a State bank making a complaint with the CID alleged that someone had purchased a stock of goods amounting to Rs. 492,029 from 23 credit cards issued by the bank. The complainant further alleged that according to information he had received, the goods purchasing had taken place at business outlets located in the US and India.

Filing a fact report before Colombo Fort Magistrate Kanishka Wijeratne in connection with the incident, the CID told the Court that it was conducting investigations to trace the suspect involved in the incident and alleged that he/ had committed a punishable offence under Section 3(1) of the Payment Devices Fraud Act No. 30 of 2006.

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