Man charged with cheating after allegedly using tampered stolen credit cards to buy luxury goods
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Item seized from a man who was arrested for suspected credit card fraud.
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SINGAPORE – A Chinese national who allegedly tampered with stolen credit cards and used them to buy $85,000 worth of luxury goods was charged in court on Feb 12.
Liu Hesheng, 49, was handed one charge of cheating.
According to the charge sheet, he allegedly used an American Express credit card under another person’s name on Jan 19 to buy a Rolex watch worth $32,716.10 at Watch Capital in 111 Somerset mall.
The police said they were alerted to multiple reports of suspected credit card fraud on Jan 23.
Several local merchants reported that they were alerted by banks about unauthorised transactions processed through their businesses.
Police officers from Tanglin Police Division and the Commercial Affairs Department established Liu’s identity and arrested him on Feb 10.
Multiple credit cards believed to have been tampered with, three mobile devices, a branded luxury watch and a radio-frequency identification device were seized from him, said the police.
Investigations showed that Liu had allegedly tampered with the Europay, Mastercard and Visa chips of multiple stolen cards, and used them to make the unauthorised transactions involving luxury goods amounting to a total of $85,000.
If convicted of cheating, he can be jailed for up to 10 years and fined.
Samuel Devaraj is a crime and court journalist at The Straits Times.
