Tourist police involved with Russian ATM skimming gang sacked

BANGKOK, Nov 19 – Thailand’s Tourism Police have sacked an officer arrested for involvement in a transnational ATM skimming gang.

Pol Sen Sgt Maj Nontapan was caught in Nakhon Ratchasima, together with two Russian men using an ATM ‘skimmer’ to hack information from their victims’ credit cards and making counterfeit credit cards to withdraw cash from ATMs. Some Bt2.8 million cash and 328 counterfeit credit cards were also seized.

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