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BY BOY RYAN ZABAL
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Wednesday, March 8, 2017
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A police officer inventories the items seized from credit card fraud suspects in Boracay. BTAC PHOTO
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BORACAY – Authorities arrested four people involved in alleged credit card fraud in this island resort.
Operatives from the Boracay Tourist Assistance Center (BTAC) caught the suspects in a hot pursuit operation at the jetty port in Barangay Caticlan, Malay town around 2:30 p.m. on Monday.
Handheld skimming devices and a laptop believed to be used by the suspects were seized during the operation.
Police identified the suspects as Camela Cho Pahati of Santa Cruz, Manila; Apol Cruz Buenaflor of Taguig City; Reynald Merlan Bartolome of Mariveles, Bataan; and Jose De Leon Marcelino of Taguig City.
They were charged with estafa and violation of Republic Act 8484, or the Access Devices Regulation Act of 1998, before the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday.
Senior Police Officer 1 Christopher Mendoza, BTAC’s police-community relations chief, said the suspects duped a popular disco bar in Barangay Balabag on March 3 by using three credit cards to pay bills worth P8,188.98.
Mendoza said the suspects left the disco bar after their credit cards were declined.
A similar incident occurred in another disco bar on March 5. The suspects ordered food and four bottles of champagne for P60,739.
“Bartolome used the name Sebastian Lim,” Mendoza said. “With the same modus, they paid their bills through credit cards and in cash worth P21,739.”
But a local bank charged the disco bar for P39,000 on Monday for the fraudulent credit card transaction.
Assorted credit cards, five mobile phones and government identification cards were also seized from the suspects. All four were detained in the BTAC lockup cell. (With Aklan Forum Journal/PN)
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