Hassainia and Raihane face
the press after being caught using counterfeit credit cards to steal from
Thai ATMs.
Boonlua Chatree
Regional and immigration police captured two French
nationals who allegedly used counterfeit credit cards to steal more than 10
million baht from Thai ATMs.
Nagim Hassainia, 33, and Samir Raihane, 41, were captured
in their north Pattaya hotel rooms Jan. 14. A team of Pattaya, Chonburi
Provincial and Immigration Department Transnational Crime investigators
seized 31 fake cards and 125,000 baht from the two men and their belongings.
Police claim the two men confessed to being part of a
larger credit-card crime ring and worked for 30 percent of whatever cash
they withdrew. To date, they’d taken more than 10 million baht out of
machines from Chiang Mai to Phuket, police said.
Other gang members are believed to still be operating in
Thailand.
