Credit card ‘impersonator’ remanded

A man who had allegedly defrauded Rs. 90,000 using a credit card that belonged to another person was remanded till 7 November by a Colombo court yesterday.

The CID told court that the suspect, A. Yoganadan of Padukka, had fraudulently obtained a credit card from a private bank in Colombo, impersonating as a customer of the bank who had actually applied for it.

The suspect had allegedly produced a letter to the bank which said the original applicant had authorised him to obtain the credit card.  In fact, the real credit card applicant had not given a letter to the suspect authorising him to obtain it on his behalf, therefore, he has committed an offence stipulated under the Devices Fraud Act, the CID further said.

Officers of the bank identified the suspect at an identification line-up held before Colombo Fort Magistrate Kanishka Wijeratne, who ordered that the suspect be remanded till 7 November.