By Our Correspondent 

Panaji (Goa): The Panaji police have arrested a Romanian tourism in connection with ATM skimming fraud, a month after his crime partner was netted by the Porvorim police for the same offense. Alexa Petrica has confessed to his crime during an interrogation soon after his arrest today.

The Panaji police managed to track him down after he was suspiciously loitering around the capital city and began running away on seeing the police patrolling jeep. “We chased him till 30-40 mtrs and caught him. He was later brought to the police station and placed under arrest. He has confessed to have committed the crime,” a senior police officer said.

The accused has three cases of ATM skimming so far with Vasco police, Porvorim police and Panaji police investigating the offense against him. In the latest case, the Punjab National Bank’s Chief Manager in Panaji lodged a complaint that unknown person had installed the skimmer at its Panaji ATM on March 20.

In Vasco last month, several people had complained that thousands of rupees were debited from their account after their transaction at Canara Bank’s ATM. A police was thereafter registered after which two foreign nationals were caught red-handed installing skimmer in the same bank’s ATM at Porvorim. Since the Canara Bank officials were already on their toes after the Vasco incident, the crime was caught and one of them Marejona from Hungary was arrested. The Romanian accused gave the bank staff and the police a slip then.