Two in custody on alleged credit card fraud

TWO MEN have been remanded for eight days in connection with using the credit card details of a Canadian citizen in order to pay for their stay at a hotel in Limassol.

A 55-year-old Israeli and 45-year-old Palestinian, arrested after the JCC card centre notified them that some suspicious transactions had been noted at a particular hotel.

According to head of CID Limassol, Yiannis Georgiou, the suspects said that they had made a reservation at the hotel through a third person who appeared to have used the card details stolen from a Canadian citizen. 

However police said both men had carried out transactions totalling €9,500 as well as having used the card details to get €1,000 in cash from the hotel but had signed for the rooms using their names – not the cardholder’s.

Georgiou also confirmed, that the two men had used the very same card details to carry out transactions in another two hotels in Limassol where they stayed in September. 

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