Bulgarian and Italian security services, together with Europol, have arrested a 25-member Bulgarian credit card fraud gang, officials said on Tuesday.

"The detained criminals have traveled to different places in the world to withdraw cash from ATMs using data obtained by skimming devices in different European countries," Bulgarian State Agency for National Security said in a statement on its website.

The gang members have withdrawn money in Indonesia, United States, Bali, Dominican Republic and Kenya, the agency reported.

Authorities discovered and seized 250 skimming devices, 2,000 copies of credit cards, and more than 50,000 euros (69,000 U.S. dollars) in cash.

Europol played a key role in the investigation that lasted more than a year, supporting the detailed tracking of phone bills and analyzing hard disks related to the criminal group, the Bulgarian state agency said. Endi

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