3 foreigners banned for alleged skimming of bank ATM machine

July 25, 2017

Three foreigners were arrested for allegedly withdrawing money from an automated teller machine of a BPI Family Bank branch at McArthur Highway, San Fernando, Pampanga on Monday. A press statement from the Region 3 Police Office on Tuesday said Radu Sandor, Nicaraguan; Marcu Bogdan, Italian and Petro Uveges, Romanian were “caught in the act of withdrawing money from the ATM machine of said bank using several ATM clone cards.” Uveges, the police statement said, has a Hungarian passport with the name Balasz Varga, and is married to a Filipina, Michelle Trajano, with whom he has two children. Seized from their were skimming device, assorted ATM cloning cards, cash money amounting to P 339,362.65; white Toyota Wigo color with conduction sticker VQ 8261 and 152 ATM clone cards, the police statement said. The three are under the custody of San Fernando City Police Station while cases for violation of RA 8484 (Access Device Regulation Act) and violation of section 33 of RA 8792 (E-commerce law) have been charged against them, it added. Coordination had been made with the Bureau of Immigration (BI) for verification of the suspects’ status as they may be involved in an international syndicate engaged in ATM card fraud, the police statement said. DMS