Four Chinese have been taken to court for allegedly being in possession of over 50 counterfeit Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cards and 10 point of sale machines. It is alleged that the suspects wanted to unlawfully use the cards and point of sale machines.

The four are alleged to have been using the said counterfeit ATM cards to withdraw money from various ATM machines. In this case, Fang Hua ping,44, and Yu Fei, 36, both businessmen, 35-year-old Zhuang Wei, a contractor, Luo Tao, an interior designer, are facing six counts of unauthorised access to intercept data and being in possession of property suspected to be proceeds of crime.

Fei and Wei are also accused of being in possession of 20 ATM cards with intentions of unlawfully utilising the chips. In another count, it is alleged that between January 1, 2015 and April 31 last year, Ping and Wei had in their possession K40,000 in a Barclays Bank account, property reasonably suspected to be proceeds of crime.

In another count, Tao is accused of being in possession of 15 ATM cards with intentions of wanting to unlawfully use them.
The four are remanded at Kamwala Correctional Facility, and will appear for plea today before magistrate Sylvia Munyinya.