PORT OF SPAIN – Eight men, including seven Venezuelan nationals, will return to court on October 21 after they were denied bail after appearing in a Magistrate’s Court in Tunapuna, east of here on Monday on charges related to a card skimming ring.
They were arrested on September 17 after police searched a three-bedroom apartment in St Augustine, east of here and discovered equipped including card reader/writers, laptop computers, plastic items resembling that of an Automatic Teller machine (ATM) card slots.
The suspects, including 23-year-old Jose Gregorio Medina Gonsalves, a Trinidadian with dual Venezuelan citizenship, have been jointly charged with trafficking counterfeit cards, possession of card making equipment and possession of marijuana.
The other suspects are 25-year-old Ricardo Ramiro Garcia Paz, Illam Bracko, 25, Douglas Alberto Gomez Luzardo, 30, Charles Enrique Tarrealba Roderiquez, 32, Ender Nazare De Jesus Baptista Contreras, 35, Fernando Enrique Anzola Salas 40 and 41-year-old Joaquin Javier Leal Villalobos.
The police said they also found a quantity of Trinidad and Tobago and United States currencies, as well as Venezuelan passports, identification cards and driver’s permits bearing the names of various Venezuelan people. (CMC)
