Cops claim … Chinese tourists rob $100m from J’cans
If your bank account has been recently drained of funds or have just inexplicably disappeared, you maybe the victim of a major financial crime said to have been perpetuated by some Chinese.
“The equipment that they have were at several ATMs in the Corporate Area. A lot of them have been identified and taken off,” Senior Superintendent Clifford Chambers of the Counter-Terrorism and Organised Crime unit, told THE STAR last night.
Three Chinese nationals who visited Jamaica as tourists four weeks ago are being accused of wrecking havoc on unsuspecting persons. The men were said to be using hi-tech devices to capture personal banking information through the use of several apps and skimming devices at ATMs to rip banking information from people’s bank cards.
The men, Zhong Jianping, 38, Guo Shanghai, 37, and Zhong Fulin, 37, who all live in China, have been charged with various financial and fraud crimes. “We have seen them move from other countries into our space here,” Chambers said.
electronic devices
The three, detained two weeks ago, were charged following investigations and several operations which resulted in the seizure of electronic devices suspected to be card readers, card writers, skimmers, and other paraphernalia used in identity theft. “These are persons who are using sophisticated devices to extract or to take off personal finance data,” Chambers said.
So bad is the situation that the police considered charging the men under the Anti-gang Law. “The Anti-gang came about to deal with established criminal organiations.
These are really financial crimes that the Anti-gang legislation would not fit,” Chambers said.
The senior cop said the men were staying at an uptown apartment. Although the men came in as visitors, Chambers said that investigations thus far indicate that they have been funnelling the ill-gotten gain out of the country. The amount involved is more than $100 million.
“We saw records where huge sums of money are being sent out of the country to China. We have seen banking information from Saudi Arabia, from Dubai, from Spain, from cards that they have and these were checked out to be fraudulent,” he said.
Them fi get the death penalty because if anyone black person go China a do that same crime them will not live. Jamaica too soft with theses high colour people who is no good to us.
I agreeee!
So now since they have established where the money went. What steps will be taken to return the people money. Stop Mek chiney people run amuck in Jamaica. Do they have to have a visa to enter Jamaica?
Karma maybe? #lottoscam
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Karma :hammer a nuff money dem dole out the machines tho
Exactly
This is a 1st,i thought the only scam chiney ppl Do is to sell yuh fake shyt!
I agree with Sansan
So u mean fi tell Mi say afta dem teef we dancing, teef we songs, teef we style, teef we talk, teef we landspace wid dem big business, teef some a di man dem an breed fi dem cause dem say Jamaican full a talent an dem want good talent baby. Dem really wah teef we money tuh. A ova deh (China) Melania come from?
Death sentence fi dem str8 Sansan. Mi live inna dem place and they show no mercy to black people here for anything. If we commit that crime here ah straight execution. Jamaica too lenient. Pon top ah dat, do we even know what a Jamaican visa look like??? Jamaica need fi start operate like US immigration and stop tek up the scum of these other countries.
Drop a grung buff to rawtid latty behave urself :ngakak :ngakak :ngakak :ngakak
I agree @RamJam mi nah seh a good fi nobody but is a world of taking we live in, nobody nuh wah work, nuh matta which nationality anybody can be a thief and a crook. I just pray neither me or ma family gets messed with, cuz nobody nuh partial it seems.