Columbian national held by Upparpet police with ATM Skimming Machine in Gandhinagar :

Pramesh S Jain

The West Division Police of Upparpet police have arrested a-34-year-old Colombian national who was found moving around an ATM machines to fix the skimming machine at an ATM kiosk near Sapna Book House in Gandhinagar on Thursday morning.

Senior officer, told reporters,the accused identified as Cristiano,34,a resident of Colombian national was roaming suspiciously around IDBI Bank ATM machine near Sapna Book House,after bank staff stopped him to question, he tried to escape but passerby and vendors and passerby managed to catch him and handed over to police.

The cops apprehended him and took him to station for further questioning and upon checking his bag,an ATM skimming machine was found in his possession so we have arrested him.

As there were a couple of complaints in the east division of stealing money by fixing skimming machines at ATM kiosks.

The preliminary investigation revealed that he had come to the city three months ago and fixed skimming machines to many ATM kiosks.He was later handed over to the cyber crime police who are interrogating and getting information about the racket he added.