Lankan held in credit card scam in Chennai

Nandeepan, a 28-year-old Sri Lankan from Jaffna, was taken in for questioning in connection with a credit card scam in Chennai.

He had come to Chennai to get a visa to France. Central crime branch sleuths recovered 70 fake credit cards and 200 blank cards from Nandeepan and his associate Vinod, 26. The duo had withdrawn Rs. 116,000 from four ATMs in Velachery and on the East Coast Road.

During interrogation, Nandeepan and Vinod revealed that they had learnt how to make fake credit cards from another Sri Lankan Tamil, Kumar, who is in Malaysia. TOI