Four Nigerians have been arrested by the police for using stolen foreign electronic visa Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cards to withdraw money in Ghanaian banks.
At the time of their arrest, they had withdrawn GH¢3,200 which is about 2,75000 naira from the Ecobank cash point at the Labone Shell Filling Station.
The suspects — Sulley Larrin, Mathias Ola, Henry Smith and Dominic Obi — who are all Nigerians, are currently in police custody, pending further investigations.
They had in their possession 90 pieces of electronic visa ATM cards belonging to both local and foreign nationals.
The cards were issued by ECOBANK, Barclays Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, UBA, Skybank, World Point, FNB and Virgin Bank, among others.
And they usually operate at night moving from one ATM centre to another using the cards to withdraw the money.
In a day the suspects could withdraw as much as GH¢20,000 which is about 17,000 naira using different cards.
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