Muscat: The Royal Oman Police (ROP) has arrested four people on charges of credit card fraud.
The men, whose identities were not revealed, are suspected of using forged credit cards to withdraw money from Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) of Oman's commercial banks and then were allegedly transferring the same outside the country.
After complaints from a number of banks, ROP caught two suspects at Muscat International Airport while they were trying to flee.
Later, two other suspects were arrested and seized from them 245 fake credit cards, cheques, computers and data used for forging the credit cards.
The suspects also hired cars from rent-a-car company at the airport and Al Wajaja border checkpoint.
Investigation also led to the fact that the suspects liaised with associates abroad who furnished information about the target account holders.
The information was then sent via an e-mail to the suspects in Oman who fed the information into the forged credit cards and thereby gained access to the accounts using ATMs.
