60 members of Bulgarian crime ring arrested across Europe for international credit card forgery scheme

60 members of Bulgarian crime ring arrested across Europe for international credit card forgery scheme - Novinite.com

A total of 60 Bulgarian citizens have now been arrested by police authorities across Europe for participating in a large international scheme for credit card forgery and other crimes.

The gang has been active since nine years and has accumulated a fortune estimated at over EUR 50. Around 5000 police officers from Spain Bulgaria, Italy, Poland, Germany, US intelligence agents and experts from Europol have contributed to the operation, codenamed Night Clone Card.

The Bulgarian crime ring, which has been described as the world's largest in the sphere of bank card cloning, has been active mostly in Italy, where nine suspects were detained. US police arrested two suspects and two more were apprehended in Spain, while one person was held in Poland.

The first group of 47 individuals were arrested by the Bulgarian police last week as part of a highly publicized special police operation codenamed Shock.