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Accused taxi fraud duo appear in court

A picture of Mohamad Fadel, 33, and Ayman Hajj Ali, 29, the two suspects accused of debit card fraud in Montreal taxis. Montreal police/Handout

MONTREAL – Two men appeared in a Montreal court Thursday in relation to a debit card fraud scheme that skimmed hundreds of thousands of dollars from the bank accounts of taxi passengers.

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Ayman Hajj Ali, 29, and Mohamed Fadel, 33, were arrested on Wednesday by the Montreal Police.

They were charged with several counts of fraud, theft and conspiracy.

This comes after multiple customers filed reports that their debit card PIN numbers had been stolen and money had been taken out of their bank accounts.

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