The Mira Bhayandar-Vasai Virar (MBVV) police have detected 16 cases with the arrest of four people who distracted people at ATM centres and stole their money, a cop said on Thursday. The MBVV police have recovered a car, cash and mobile phones worth Rs 5.28 lakh from the interstate gang, apart from seizing 94 ATM cards, said Suhas Bavche, deputy commissioner of police-zone II, Virar.

The arrests came on the complainant of a man who was targeted at an ATM near Santosh Bhuvan in Nalasopara, on December 9 last year. The man told the police that four men kept him engrossed in talks, replaced his ATM card with a fake one and withdrew R40,000 from his account, said the officer.