Oct 27, New York: The New York police have arrested two Sri Lankan Tamils living in Canada for allegedly stealing money from banks using fraudulent ATM cards.

The police have arrested Sivarubem Gnanapandithan, 28, and Ragavan Pathmasenan, 24, two Sri Lankan nationals living in Ontario, Canada for allegedly stealing cash from bank machines.

According to a Reuters report, a police officer has noticed the two men in a bank lobby on Friday night stuffing cash into backpacks and followed them to another lobby where they repeated the process.

The two men 257 fraudulent ATM cards, mostly blank, cards similar to hotel pass keys and $55,689 in cash in their possession when they were arrested, the police have said on Saturday.