Photographer jailed for fraud

A LEBANESE photographer was yesterday sentenced to 28 months in prison for using forged credit cards to go on a £40,000 spending spree.

Larnaca District court heard that 43-year-old Abdoul Naser was a member of an international credit card fraud ring based in Britain. Naser had pleaded guilty to using a forged credit card in Larnaca, 10 times, Paphos, 31 times, Limassol, 43 times, and Nicosia, twice.

He was arrested at Larnaca airport as he tried to leave the island on May 11.