Pune June 20 A senior Citibank officer and three customers were cheated of Rs 10 lakh in a credit card fraud. Sunil Nade (33), manager of the Financial Resource Management (FRM) division of Citibank’s east street branch, has lodged a complaint with the Bund Garden police station.
The police have arrested a person identified as Bharat Kansukhbahi Soni of Mumbai. Nade and three of his bank customers had gone to Hotel Le-Meridian on Bund Garden Road on May 7. They paid the bill through credit cards. It is suspected that when Nade gave the credit cards for the payment, the accused Soni and his accomplices Asif and Javed were present at the hotel. The accused managed to copy the credit card details in a computer using an electronic device.
He then used these details for making fake credit cards and buying goods worth Rs 10,03,679 in Mumbai and Surat till June 13.
The fraud came to light when the victims got the credit card slips recently. The case was transferred to the crime branch for investigations.
A police team arrested Soni at Mumbai. Soni has been remanded to police custody till June 25. A search was on for nabbing the Asif and Javed, who are suspected to be the kingpins.
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