Story of 46 ATM cards, Dh1m and a woman…

The Jaffna Magistrate in the Northern peninsula, remanded four men and a woman on Sunday, in connection with an ATM/credit card racket where they had fraudulently withdrawn Rs37 million [Dh1.07million] from three banks within nine hours on May 20 last year.

They will remain in custody until tomorrow.

A Criminal Investigations Department (CID) spokesman told ‘The Island’ on Monday that a Canadian bank had issued the ATM/credit cards used in the scam last year and the withdrawals had been made from teller machines in Jaffna, Velvettiturai and Kilinochchi.

He said that Rs3.5 million, out of the Rs37 million fraudulently withdrawn, had been recovered along with 46 ATM cards.

Police said that among the items recovered from the possession of the suspects was a credit card belonging to a Canadian.

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