Five Chinese men arrested with 182 fake credit cards
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Crime Suppression Division Police have arrested five Chinese men for having allegedly used fake credit cards to shop in Bangkok, causing damages worth over Bt180 million.
The arrest of Zu Jian, 42, Cui Yuanchang, 31, Tan Guo Ping, 40, Zhu Guo Ping, 53, and Liu Shijin, 42 was announced at a press conference at the CSD head office Sunday.
CSD officers seized 182 fake credit cards, credit-card charging device, six electronic card readers and three devices for printing credit card faces.
Police alleged that the five stole others’ credit card information via Internet to make fake cards for shopping in Thailand and have allegedly caused damages worth over Bt180 million.
They were arrested on Friday after the CSD was alerted that two of them used two fake credit cards to buy gold ornaments at a gold shop in Big C Rajdamri shopping mall.
Police arrested Zu at the scene while the other fled the scene. Information from Zu led police to arrest the three suspects others at the Tivoli Hotel on Soi Sathorn 1.
