Police bust lab prepared credit card frauds in Higuey

Santo Domingo. – Police Criminal Investigations agents on Sunday busted a clandestine laboratory in Higuey (east), where credit card fraud and phishing scams were devised.

Justice Ministry officials headed the operation and arrested Jorge Bienvenido Monegro Carpio, resident in the Residencial Sajul, where two IDs were seized, one Dominican and one Venezuelan.

Police said also seized was equipment used to clone credit cards, such as a magnetizer, miniature tools, devices to capture passcodes from credit and debit cards, Blackberries, printers, computers and laptops.