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Two Danish nationals are being held at a hotel in Kaunas, suspected of using foreign payment card details from foreign banks and buying goods in Lithuania for more than 225,000. euros. A little later, on Friday, the court allowed them to be arrested for one month and three months.
According to Kaunas County Police, a man born in 1984 and a woman born in 1974 were arrested Wednesday at a hotel in downtown Kaunas.
It is suspected that during the three days of May they bought various electronic equipment and other goods in the shopping malls of Kaunas and Vilnius, illegally using the data of other people’s payment instruments, by telephone, by means of contactless payment.
According to the Kaunas District Court data, the suspects bought 11 foreign payment card details issued by the Bank of Saudi Arabia by mobile phone and paid for them using contactless NFC technology.
According to preliminary data, the average amount of a purchase was around 5,000. euros. According to the court, a total of 256 settlement transactions were carried out between May 13 and 25.
During the arrest, part of the illegally acquired property was found and confiscated from the suspects: phones, smart watches, other electronic equipment, jewelry and clothing.
According to the police, the crime data was obtained in cooperation with the Wordline Lietuva company.
The Kaunas County Criminal Police Crime Investigation Board has launched a pre-trial investigation into the illegal removal of an electronic payment instrument, the use of an illegal payment instrument or your details, and fraud. The investigation is led by prosecutors from the Second Prosecution Division of the Kaunas Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
On Friday, the Kaunas District Court allowed the suspected woman to be arrested by the WMA for one month and the suspect by MN for three months. It was those deadlines that the prosecutor asked the court.
The arrest decision can be appealed to the Kaunas Regional Court within 20 days.
Kaunas police photo.
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