A Romanian man was arrested on Sukhumvit Soi 7 in Bangkok for hacking into European banks’ customer information to make withdrawals from automated teller machines (ATMs) in Thailand.

Tourist Police yesterday presented to the press the suspect, Lozinca George Alexandru, 22, along with Bt6,000 cash, 655 fake electronic cards, a magnetic stripe reader and recorder, and a notebook computer.

Siam Commercial Bank’s fraudprevention officials had alerted police about the unauthorised withdrawals.

Read more: The Nation