Police bust debit card cloning syndicate


Major operation: Deputy Comm Dzulkhairi (left) pointing to the ­different kinds of credit card clones at a press conference. — Bernama

MELAKA: A syndicate involved in processing bank debit cards has been busted with the arrest of a Singaporean man at a condominium in Tengkera.

Melaka police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Dzulkhairi Mukhtar said the 42-year-old suspect was detained during a raid at 1.15pm on April 23, where police seized 227 Laos-based Joint Development Bank Visa debit cards along with various equipment used to produce cloned debit cards, including a laser cutting machine, a heat gun blower and a debit card scanning machine.

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