Police seized $22,000 in cash, a laptop, pinhole cameras and other devices. (Blair Rhodes/CBC)A 22-year-old Ontario man has been charged in connection with debit card skimming after police arrested him in Halifax Wednesday.
Volodymyr Zozulya faces a number of credit card-related offences, including fraud over $5,000, possession of credit card data, using credit card data, having a device intended to forge credit cards, intercepting a function of a computer system and having a computer password enabling the commission of a fraud.
A police investigation led officers to the Via Rail train station, where they arrested a man and woman just after 12 p.m. Wednesday.
Police say a search of the man's bag resulted in the seizure of several technical devices and a substantial quantity of cash.
The RCMP Criminal Interdiction Team had launched the investigation. Both the man and woman were then turned over to the Halifax Regional Police and RCMP Integrated Financial Crime Unit.
The man was identified as someone involved in a skimming operation targeting CIBC ATMs in Halifax.
The woman was released without charges.
Zozulya is scheduled to appear in provincial court in Halifax.
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