Two young men aged 20 from Chisinau municipality are liable to eight years in prison for forging bank cards and putting them into circulation. The IT specialists were arrested in the act of withdrawing money from an ATM in Chisinau. They had about 20 forged cards and 50,000 lei on them, IPN reports.

In a news conference on May 29, General Police Inspectorate head Ion Bodrug said the young men formed part of an international criminal group operating in Moldova, Ukraine and the United States. A suspect was earlier caught in Ukraine. The other members were put on the wanted list. They are allegedly abroad.

The group has withdrawn about 1.5 million lei from bank accounts of persons, using over 1,000 forged banks cards. After the two were arrested, the police also found the laboratory where the bank cards were counterfeit. The equipment used there was estimated at about 100,000 lei.