Bulgarian man nabbed

According to reports, officers led by Snr Supt Totaram Dookhie and including Cpl Lutchman and others executed a search warrant at the guest house and detained the foreigner after a search of a room booked in his name resulted in the seizure of US$168,000; an electronic device used to skim ATMs and a quantity of bank cards among other items.

The man was taken into cusotdy and was being questioned at the Fraud Squad office in Port-of- Spain.

Police sources said the Bulgarian is believed to have entered the coutnry at the end of October and linked up with local criminals involved in the ‘skimming’ operation in which devices are placed in ATMs which then ‘read’ the personal identification codes entered by persons wishing to withdraw money from their accounts via the ATMs. The information is then transferred onto a dummy bank card which is then used to clean out the unsuspecting person’s bank account of funds. Police have sourced the services of an interpretor to assist in the interrogation process.