Calgary man Hamad Baloch faces more fraud charges

The Calgary Police Service has laid 10 additional charges in relation to a five-month operation targeting the creation and use of fraudulent identification, credit cards and documents.

On Thursday, June 16, 2011, the Targeted Enforcement Unit, with the support of several other units of the CPS, executed warrants on four residences, two commercial units, a storage locker and four vehicles.

A credit/debit and identity manufacturing lab was seized containing over 50 fraudulent drivers licenses, over 500 fraudulent credit cards, information relating to over 50 stolen identity profiles and dozens of passport photographs. Additional seizures included; $95,000 cash, weapons including a taser, replica handgun a machete and a large decorative knife, drugs and other stolen electronics such as laptops and 3D televisions.

Hamad BALOCH, 30, of Calgary has been charged with the following additional charges:

Illegal possession of government identity documents
Possessing instruments of credit card forgery
Unlawfully forging credit cards
Possessing forged credit cards
Unauthorized possession of credit card data
Unlawfully possessing identity information
Possessing instruments of forgery
Possessing a forged document
Possession of counterfeit Canadian currency
Possessing instruments for counterfeiting