Four Estonians charged for forging bank cards in Finland

BNS
Copy
Please note that the article is more than five years old and belongs to our archive. We do not update the content of the archives, so it may be necessary to consult newer sources.
Photo: SCANPIX

Four Estonian men appeared before court  in Vantaa, Finland on Tuesday charged with copying bank cards and causing damage worth 40,000 euros, Finnish daily Helsingin Sanomat writes.

According to the newspaper the men illegally copied bank and credit cards in Sipoo municipality's St1 gas station in March this year. Regional prosecutor Veera Hammarstrom sought a prison sentence for the four men. According to the investigation a fifth man also took part in the crime but it hasn't been possible to bring him to the trial.

Two of the accused pleaded guilty to using the bank cards for paying with in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Poland. At the same time they said that they were unaware that the cards had been copied. The other two said they were innocent, the paper reports.

One of the accused is a building contractor from whose computer data from the magnetic stripes of bank cards was found. In the prosecutor's words the man had a computer program which was used to forward the data to fake cards. The man had also ordered additional equipment for forging and making the cards.

In the prosecutor's words the men copied information from the magnetic stripes of bank and credit cards of at least 31 persons and transfered it to bank cards that were in their name.

Comments
Copy
Top