Twelve Bulgarians have been arrested in Madrid, Spain, for their participation in an international organized crime group, dealing with forging credit cards, Darik News reported, citing officials from the Spanish National Police.

The forgers copied the information from the magnetic strip of credit cards of people from the Caribbean islands and Europe and them went to Spain to drain the bank accounts from ATMs.

The organized crime group has a number of "operating cells" around the globe and every blow brought them between EUR 400,000 and EUR 600,000, which means the group made a total of EUR 5 M.

The Spanish police started surveillance of the Bulgarian cell several months ago, when the special unit for fight against organized crime noticed that a group of one and the same people very often travelled from Germany, Spain and Bulgaria to the Caribbean Islands of Barbados and Aruba, the Seychelles, the Maldives, the Virginia Islands, etc.

After several arrests the group moved their crime activities in Portugal. A month later the leaders of the cells around the world gathered in Lisbon to discuss their activities, and this is when the Spanish and the Portugal police hit and made the arrests.

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