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Ghanaian national behind ATM hacks to be deported

/ 05:10 AM October 31, 2022

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MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Immigration (BI) is set to deport a Ghanian national suspected to be the mastermind of a West African syndicate that hacks automated teller machines (ATMs) in the Philippines.

In a statement, Immigration Intelligence Division Chief Fortunato Manahan Jr. said Victor Patrick, 34, was recently arrested in a joint operation conducted by members of the BI and the Armed Forces of the Philippines at the parking lot of a mall in Bicutan.

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The bureau said Patrick was one of the prime suspects involved in an ATM hacking syndicate.

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“He has been seen to frequent several big banks in Barangay Moonwalk in Parañaque,” Manahan said.

Patrick arrived in the country on April 20, 2019, as a tourist and applied for a missionary visa as petitioned by a Cebu-based company, which turned out to be nonexistent

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—TINA G. SANTOS

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