{"id":68006,"date":"2017-07-20T13:01:25","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T20:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=68006"},"modified":"2017-07-20T13:01:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T20:01:25","slug":"sri-lankan-held-in-bengaluru-is-tamil-nadus-most-wanted-bank-card-fraudster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/07\/20\/sri-lankan-held-in-bengaluru-is-tamil-nadus-most-wanted-bank-card-fraudster\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan held in Bengaluru is Tamil Nadu&#8217;s most-wanted bank card fraudster"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Times of India<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>BENGALURU:\u00a0<a class=\"key_underline\" href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Sri-Lankan-national-Divyan\">Sri Lankan national Divyan<\/a>\u00a0alias\u00a0<a class=\"key_underline\" href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Dinesh-alias-Pulikesi\">Dinesh alias Pulikesi<\/a>, 30, who landed in\u00a0<a class=\"key_underline\" href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Bengaluru-police-custody\">Bengaluru police custody<\/a>\u00a0on Friday, happens to be\u00a0<a class=\"key_underline\" href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Tamil-Nadu's-most-wanted-bank-card-fraudster\">Tamil Nadu&#8217;s most-wanted bank card fraudster<\/a>\u00a0who had been on the run for five years. The then\u00a0<a class=\"key_underline\" href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/TN-governor\">TN governor<\/a>\u00a0had issued an exclusive detention order in 2012 to nab the foreign national, suspected to have swindled over Rs 100 crore.Apparently, his blunder of revealing his original cellphone number after purchasing a TV set using a cloned card brought Bengaluru cops to his doorstep in Jalahalli.<br \/>\nAlong with Divyan, his accomplices Nawaz Shariff, 22, and Nadeem Shariff, 30, were taken into custody by a Central Crime Branch (CCB) team; 270 dummy creditdebit cards, 114 cloned cards, 36 EDC machines and other equipment used for the fraud were found at his apartment which was taken for a monthly rent of Rs 50,000.<\/p>\n<div class=\"section1\">\n<div class=\"Normal\"><strong>Fled to Bengaluru in 2012:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"last2brdiv\">\u00a0Sourc booked in Chennai alone and TN police declaring him as a notorious fraud, Divyan fled the state in November 2012, the same evening the governor issued an order to detain him in the camp for notorious foreign suspects. &#8220;Divyan came to Bengaluru in 2012 and was operating a big racket. Apart from Nawaz and Nadeem, we suspect 10 more are involved. We also suspect Shorty&#8217;s hand,&#8221; said an investigating officer with Bengaluru CCB. es in Chennai police said Divyan, a native of Jaffna, came to the city in mid-2007 and teamed up with fraudster and Sri Lankan national Umesh alias Shorty . &#8220;Shorty was his guru in the trade and they were involved in nearly 2,000 offences in the state where they had siphoned off over Rs 2 crore,&#8221; said a CCB official in Chennai. With six cases being<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Times of India BENGALURU:\u00a0Sri Lankan national Divyan\u00a0alias\u00a0Dinesh alias Pulikesi, 30, who landed in\u00a0Bengaluru police custody\u00a0on Friday, happens to be\u00a0Tamil Nadu&#8217;s most-wanted bank card fraudster\u00a0who had been on the run for five years. The then\u00a0TN governor\u00a0had issued an exclusive detention order in 2012 to nab the foreign national, suspected to have swindled over Rs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}