Loading ...The prosecutors of the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized and Terrorist Crimes (DIICOT) disbanded an organized crime group specializing in the building of equipment capable of copying credit card data and then stealing the money by unauthorized account access.
According to a DIICOT release sent on Thursday, five group members were identified after having been monitored for several months both in Romania and in several other European countries (Denmark, the United Kingdom and Greece), while attempting to collect data from the cards of these countries’ citizens.
Investigators found that the criminal group was operating by a pre-established scheme, with some persons financing the trips abroad and equipment costs, while others built the information- capturing devices, placed them and then removed them from ATMs in West-European countries.
Police searching on Wednesday the homes of four suspects found and seized several electronic components intended for counterfeiting bank cards, card readers, card imprinters, as well as several bank cards, blanks and imprinted cards belonging to others, counterfeit ATM interfaces, mini spy cameras and several ATM skimming devices in various stages of execution.
“We have clues that the group members collected data from 200 bank cards, and investigations will establish the identity of the holders, as well as the extent of the fraudulent financial transactions carried out after the data was obtained. Investigations are ongoing to determine all the related facts,” reads the release.
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