Oshcheva and Gerasimenko have
been caught using
fake credit cards to buy gold.
Boonlua Chatree
Pattaya police captured a Russian couple allegedly using
fake credit cards to buy gold around Pattaya.
Evgeniya Oshcheva, 24, was taken into custody at the
Thongsuk gold shop after Siam Commercial Bank tipped off police to bogus
credit card use at the Second Road store. She was caught with five fake cash
cards and the necklace worth 24,668 baht.
During interrogation, Oshcheva reportedly told police
where to find her boyfriend who allegedly had more fake plastic. Outside a
South Pattaya hotel, officers apprehended Alexandr Gerasimenko, 27, who was
carrying a half-dozen more counterfeit cards.
Both were charged with possession and intent to use
electronic cards they knew to be fraudulent.
Police said Oshcheva told them she and her boyfriend were working for a
British man who supplied them the fake cards in order to purchase gold.
Police are now searching for the supposed British ringleader.
