International Chinese Gang arrested by FIA in Karachi
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KARACHI – The Federal Investigative Agency (FIA) along with Bank Al-Habib Limited (BAHL) team have detained International Chinese Fraudsters Gang, who were involved in attaching ATM skimming devices along with PIN Hole Camera Panel with the ATM(s) of BAHL and different other banks based in Karachi.
The accused illegally and unauthorisedly capturing the data of the card, and thereafter, transmitted it to different foreign countries for execution of International Cash withdrawal transactions from the ATM(s).
The FIU team of BAHL along with the collaboration of FIA, Cyber Crime Circle team, Karachi successfully apprehended the ringleader and the key member of this Chinese gang namely Zhong Xianming and Zhong Xianquan respectively, when, they were attempting to remove the ATM skimming device and PIN Hole Camera Panel from the ATM of BAHL, Chartered Accountant Avenue Branch, Karachi.
Subsequently, in response to our formal complaint, an appropriate FIR has been registered under section 3, 4, 13, 14 of PECA 2016 r/w 420 & 109 PPC by FIA. These Chinese were sent to Karachi jail for further investigation and legal proceedings.
FIA retrieved different equipment and devices from the gang which further revealed data of different banks which were either be used earlier or would be used to syphon off the money of the different commercial banks and their customers.
Additionally, on tip-off of the arrested culprits, the involved Lenovo Laptop, one more Skimmer to be attached with NCR-Self Serv ATM and one Skimmer to be attached with Diebold ATM, fake-Counterfeit cards, having data of different banks (which will be shared with respective banks very soon), imported double tape roles, External hard disks having ATM PIN capturing data and many other useful illegal material have been successfully recovered.
