A 35-year-old Romanian national, allegedly involved in the hi-tech ATM robbery in South Indian state of Kerala where people lost about Rs 2.5 lakh (0.25 million), has been arrested from Navi Mumbai, a police official said on Wednesday (August 10).
Gabrial Mariam was nabbed from a hotel in Mumbai’s Vashi area by a team of Kerala Police late last night, with the help of Mumbai Crime Branch, senior Inspector of Vashi Police Station Ajay Kumar Landged.
Mariam was on Wednesday (August 10) produced before a Navi Mumbai court which sent him in transit remand, he added. After the robbery to light, a case was registered under IPC Section 380 (theft in dwelling house, etc) and under relevant sections of IT Act at Museum Police Station of Thiruvananthapuram.
The arrest came after Kerala Police yesterday zeroed in on three foreign nationals suspected to be the key players behind the ATM robbery, and decided to seek Interpol's help to track them. The trio, found installing an electronic device inside an ATM kiosk of a public sector bank at Vellayambalam here, had been caught in the CCTV installed there.
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