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2 Bulgarians Busted in Chile for Credit Card Draining
Crime | July 25, 2012, Wednesday // 15:42
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Two Bulgarian nationals have been arrested in Chile for draining cloned credit cards, Chile's La Nacion has said, as cited by Bulgarian media.
32-year-old Krastyo Ivanov and 33-year-old Tsvetan Zarev arrived in the capital Santiago approximately two weeks prior to their arrest.
They used cloned credit cards to drain bank accounts owned by British and French citizens.
The money was then sent to Bulgaria.
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