CityNews – November 1, two foreign men were arrested on suspicion of skimming ATMs in Chiang Mai after reports from Bangkok suggested the two men were using cards in Chiang Mai.
27-year-old Yevhen Hrytsenko and 31-year-old Iurii Korobchenko from Ukraine, were arrested by Chiang Puak Police after a bank’s head office in Bangkok reported that foreigners already under suspicion had withdrawn money in Chiang Mai.
The two men were arrested when they were leaving their hotel, carrying a suitcase that contained a netbook, a card scanning machine, 138 ATM cards, flight tickets from Bangkok to Chiang Mai and 100,000 baht in cash.
They were planning on taking a songtaew to a restaurant in Chiang Moi before taking a taxi to Lampang.
The ATM cards in their possession had also reportedly been used in Europe before.