A 33-year-old man from the Republic of Mongolia has been arrested for stealing credit cards and making 250,000 patacas worth of purchases with them, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said during a special conference at the PJ headquarters in Zape yesterday.
According to the spokesperson, the police received separate reports from a Swiss woman and a local man saying their wallets had been stolen, one in a Cotai hotel and the other near the Ruins of St Paul’s, in December 2015.
A total of three credit cards were stolen from the two victims, but when the victims reported the loss to their banks, they were told that purchases had been made with their cards, according to the spokesperson.
Judiciary Police (PJ) officers escort the suspect from the Republic of Mongolia to a vehicle outside the PJ headquarters in Zape yesterday. Photo: Iong Tat Choi
