Ukrainian "skimmers" rounded up in Bangkok police operation

[rooster59]

Ukrainian "skimmers" rounded up in Bangkok police operation

Image: Daily News

BANGKOK: Two Ukrainian men were arrested Friday for stealing bank customers' money in a skimming operation.

Police had been on the tail of the men, who had entered on tourist visas, for some time after reports of a gang operating on the Thonburi side of Bangkok.

Both men were due to fly out hours after their arrest with one man rounded up at Suvarnabumi airport having already cleared customs.

Rat Burana police had been alerted to suspicious and illegal use of fake electronic bank cards in their jurisdiction by an ATM association working for Thai banks. CCTV footage was studied and surveillance was carried out to track down those responsible.

Finally the police perseverance paid off with the capture of Oleg Kachmaryk caught red handed using a fake card at a Thai Farmers Bank ATM on Suksawat Road in the Rat Burana area. Interrogation led police to Andrei Leschinski who was waiting to board a plane at the airport. Both men were in fact due to fly out on Friday.

Some 81 fake electronic cards were found and cash totaling over 100,000 baht in their possession. Phones and clothing used by the men was also taken in as evidence.

The pair had come into Thailand as tourists for ten days and Oleg told police that they had met up with two other gang members at a department store who had given them the fake cards to use. They had stolen money to the tune of several hundred thousand baht and been paid 6,000 baht each time, money they had used for their holiday in the kingdom.

They were charged with using fake ATM cards with the intention of defrauding the public.

Source: Daily News

-- 2016-05-21

[ezzra]

Thai jails must be full of those crocks by now, but no body knows what penalties or jail terms they

get one their crimes has been reported.......

[ukrules]

They were charged with using fake ATM cards with the intention of defrauding the public.

This right here is the problem. It's not the public who are being defrauded, it's the banks. Each and every one of them.

Tha banks don't give a <deleted> so they force the loss onto the public.

[thaiduncankk]

Good work by the B.I.B. just in the nick of time.

Just need to get Mr Big, although he is probably well away from here already.

[dddave]

Tha banks don't give a <deleted> so they force the loss onto the public.

Read the story again. It was a security agency working for the banks that pinpointed these guys and provided the information leading to their arrest...one being caught is the act.

I'd say that's a pretty good indication that the banks very much do give a <deleted>

Edited May 21, 2016 by dddave

[Khon Kaen Dave]

81 cards,and only 100,000 baht in cash.I bet they took a lot more than that.Why would you go home with only 2000 quid? You can do quite a lot of damage with 81 cards in ten days.Something is afoot here me think's

Sherlock,its all yours.

[AsiaCheese]

Must be a VERY old story. Thai Farmers Bank...

[Bangkokazy]

81 cards,and only 100,000 baht in cash.I bet they took a lot more than that.Why would you go home with only 2000 quid? You can do quite a lot of damage with 81 cards in ten days.Something is afoot here me think's

Sherlock,its all yours.

They had stolen money to the tune of several hundred thousand baht and been paid 6,000 baht each time, money they had used for their holiday in the kingdom.

[HerbalEd]

They were charged with using fake ATM cards with the intention of defrauding the public.

This right here is the problem. It's not the public who are being defrauded, it's the banks. Each and every one of them.

Tha banks don't give a <deleted> so they force the loss onto the public.

Actually your post shows how the public is being defrauded via the banks.

[ozyjon]

I want my money back scumbags.

[KhunBENQ]

Must be a VERY old story. Thai Farmers Bank...

No. Just a "correct" translation

Kasikorn = a more or less correct transcript of the Thai word for "farmer", "agriculturalist".

"English" style transcript:

http://www.thai2english.com/dictionary/1325703.html

One of the nicer bank "renames" of the past.

It is and was always the "kasikon" (farmer) bank in Thai language.

Once they decided to get rid of the "rural" appeal for the farangs and used the transcription.

Now they are even further and try to establish "K-bank".

Edited May 21, 2016 by KhunBENQ

[ableguy]

Thai jails must be full of those crocks by now, but no body knows what penalties or jail terms they

get one their crimes has been reported.......

We all wonder how many of these gangs caught are doing time on fish head soup, question on here asked many times, maybe it's a state secrets, maybe heading for attitude adjustment if pushing foe an answer, oh sorry wrong people.

[prestburypark]

" Interrogation led police to Andrei Leschinski who was waiting to board a plane at the airport. Both men were in fact due to fly out on Friday."

I wonder what interrogation techniques were used to extract this information?

"We have ways of making you talk."

[AsiaCheese]

Must be a VERY old story. Thai Farmers Bank...

No. Just a "correct" translation

Kasikorn = a more or less correct transcript of the Thai word for "farmer", "agriculturalist".

"English" style transcript:

http://www.thai2english.com/dictionary/1325703.html

One of the nicer bank "renames" of the past.

It is and was always the "kasikon" (farmer) bank in Thai language.

Once they decided to get rid of the "rural" appeal for the farangs and used the transcription.

Now they are even further and try to establish "K-bank".

Wow, thanks for that one! I didn't know that!

[berybert]

Personally I think they have been stitched up.

No finger pointing indicates no guilt.