Fake credit cards intercepted at Dabala

Aflao, June 9, GNA- Two Nigerians are being held by the police at Aflao, in connection with 104 suspected fake electronic visa automated teller machine cards they brought into Ghana from Nigeria.

They are Lawal Adeshokan, 40, a printer, believed to be a member of an international electronic visa card fraud syndicate, and Papa Callistius, 62, a driver who plied between Ghana and Nigeria, both residents of Lagos, Nigeria.

Fifty-two of the cards, which bore different numbers and were supposed to have been issued by Barclays Bank, were all in the name of James Peter and the remaining cards supposed to have been issued by First National Bank were all in the name of Lucas Ken. Mr. Ahmed Issah Yakubu, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) in charge of the Aflao District Police Command, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that on Monday June 2, this year, Callistius who was driving a Benz saloon car with registration number AY 614 KTU from Lagos to Accra arrived at the Customs Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) check point at Dabala at about 1400 hours.

The police office said during a check, the CEPS personnel found a box containing 104 Visa Credit Cards suspected to be fake, neatly wrapped in a polythene bag and concealed in the car.

ASP Yakubu said Callistius admitted during interrogation that the parcel was given to him by an unknown lady in Lagos to be delivered to Ade in Accra who he was asked to contact by telephone number the lady gave him.

ASP Yakubu said the CEPS officials handed over the driver and the cards to the police at Aflao and they sent the suspect and the cards to Accra. ASP Yakubu said the driver informed Ade of the arrival of the cards in Accra and when he wanted to collect the cards, the police arrested him. He said Adetsokan admitted that he printed the cards for Akin, also a Nigerian resident in Burkina Faso.

Mr. Yakubu said the suspect told the Police that he previously supplied such cards to Akin but did not know their use. He appealed to financial institutions to be vigilant in the wake of fraudulent cash withdrawals through the use of either stolen or fake Visa credit cards. 9 June, 08