CITY OF SAN FERNANDO – Two Bulgarian nationals were arrested after allegedly installing a copying gadget in an ATM machine in a mall here recently.
Camp Olivas information officer Supt. Nelson Aganon identified the suspects as l Mladenov Emil Stoyanov and Kanev Lyuven Georgiev. They were nabbed after they allegedly skimmed an ATM machine of Banco de Oro at SM mall here last Friday.
The two foreigners were immediately held after a bank client reported that an ATM machine had two pin pads with card skimmer, amid their suspicious movements in the vicinity.
The two were initially held by SM security officers until the arrival of police probers who found in their possession three data port cables that matched the ATM card skimmer, a small flat screwdriver for picking ATM cards, and a laptop with a decoding software.
Aganon said the suspects faced violations of Access Devices Regulation Act of 1998 and the Act Providing for the Recognition and Use of Electronic Commercial and Non-Commercial Transactions and Document. The Bulgarians were taken to the Mexico jail, as part of the mall was within the territory of Mexico town.
Aganon said his probers have been coordinating with the Bureau of Immigration to get more information about the suspects, as they could be in the wanted list of the International Police.
