A gang of five women and one man, all from Malaysia, were arrested here for using a large number of fake credit cards to make exorbitant purchases at swanky shops and shopping centers, announced Wednesday director of the Criminal Investigation Department at the Ministry of Interior Abdulhameed al-Awadhi. Mastermind of the gang, however, skipped the country before authorities could nab him, taking with him quite a bit of the stolen merchandize the gang had bought with the fake cards, said al-Awadhi.
He urged the public to safeguard their credit cards and not make them easily accessible to anyone they do not trust. He said the incident with the gang of five was unprecendented in Kuwait. But he affirmed that the Ministry was quite ready to handle cases of high tech crimes involving the use of computers and magnetic cards such as credit cards. The Ministry of Interior, he said, has plans in place to form a special task force to handle computer-related crimes, which he classified into two kinds, one related to Information Technology (IT) and the other to the Internet. The Ministry, he indicated, was contemplating legislation to encounter the dangers of computer and high tech crimes of all kinds. |