A local court on Thursday sent a young Chinese citizen, who was allegedly involved in stealing the ATM data from a private bank, to jail on a judicial remand.
The cyber crime cell of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested a Chinese citizen namely Xie Yi after the agency was informed by the bank authorities about suspicious activities of foreigners in the ATM service.
The close circuit television cameras recorded that two Chinese had spent an unduly long time at the ATM service of a private bank in its Plaza Square Branch.
The bank authorities informed the FIA which found two skimming devices which were put to detect consumers secret code used for transaction.
After a few hours, the foreigner had visited the site again but he was nabbed by the FIA’s cyber crime cell. However, his accomplice is still absconding.
According to FIA, it was an attempt to access the bank data with the skimming device.
In Thursday’s hearing, the court sent the accused to jail on a 14-day judicial remand.
The case was registered under sections of Electronic Transactions Ordinance 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) and 471 (using as genuine a forged documents) and Pakistan Penal Code.
