Niger men caught at Swampy with 568 credit cards tell cops: We're just shopping for our relatives!
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Bangkok: -- Police arrested three men from Niger on Tuesday who arrived on two separate flights from China with a total of 568 fake credit cards.
Arrested were Yahaya Mahamadu Sala, 24, Maman Malam Apdu, 55, and Haliro Abdul Cardre, 44 all from Niger, reported Daily News.
Police had laid in wait in the customs area of Suvarnabhumi airport after a tip off from Guangzhou that people were coming in with fake cards.
Yahaya was arrested first in the "Green Lane" with 269 cards in a bag that was X-rayed. Then the two others were caught with 299 more.
Police said that the cards all had microchips that contained data of other people.
The men denied they were doing anything wrong. They said that they had come to Thailand to buy things for their many relatives.
Police booked them and detained them for prosecution.
Source: Daily News
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