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After an extensive, six-month investigation into gas station credit card skimmers, Calgary police have charged two men — one an electrical engineering student — both of whom manufactured their own devices. 

Denys Ranyuk, 32, and Dimitri Barbu, 33, were arrested Wednesday and hit with 39 total charges. 

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Calgary Police allege the pair cheated more than 3,000 credit card holders by using card skimming devices at 38 different gas stations in and around Calgary over the past six months. 

Kristie Verheul, Staff Sgt.  with the force’s economic crimes unit, cautioned there may have been more than the 38 stations affected. 

The investigation led to police executing search warrants yesterday at the 400 block of Mahogany Terrace S.E. and at a residence in the 100 block of Silverado Boulevard S.W., Verheul said. 

Photo by Evan Radford / Calgary Herald

Those searches uncovered a credit card and identification counterfeiting lab.  It included hand tools and paint to create overlays, pinpad keys, cash, a track two data reader and encoder, samples of fraudulent credit cards and counterfeit identification.