Two foreign nationals and three South African women appeared briefly in the East London Magistrate’s Court yesterday to make a formal bail application after they were arrested for alleged credit card skimming.
Simeon Toshen from Bulgaria and Anthony Uchena from Nigeria appeared alongside co-accused Rachel Harden and Lungiswa Tayati – both from Johannesburg – and Nomhle Buzana from Port Elizabeth.
The alleged ATM fraudsters are each facing several charges of fraud.
The five accused – between the ages of 26 and 42 – were arrested earlier this month after they allegedly defrauded members of the public out of hundreds of thousands of rands by attaching skimming devices to ATM machines across several East London suburbs.
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