Credit card fraud suspect charged
THE National Bureau of Investigation in Central Visayas (NBI-7) filed a criminal complaint against a 27-year-old man accused of using a cloned credit card to buy plane tickets.
Ryan Abatayo, a resident of barangay Calaojan, Minglanilla town, Cebu, was arrested in an entrapment operation by agents of the NBI-7 last March 11.
Charges of violating Republic Act 8484 or the Access Devices Regulation Act of 1998 were lodged against Abatayo before the Cebu City Prosecutors’ Office.
He remains under the custody of the NBI-7 pending resolution of the charges against him.
The NBI-7 considered Abatayo a “prinicipal suspect” in the credit card fraud after he was pointed to by two other individuals who were earlier arrested for the same accusations.
Abatayo chose to undergo preliminary investigation before the prosecutor’s office for him to submit a counter-affidavit and refute the allegations./REPORTER ADOR VINCENT S. MAYOL
