A man from Thornton Heath is among 11 people arrested on suspicion of running a $200m (£130m) worldwide credit card fraud ring.

The 34-year-old was one of three men arrested yesterday in the UK, by officers from the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), the Metropolitan Police Central e-crime unit and the dedicated Cheque and Plastic Crime Unit.

The website, using the name "mattfeuter", facilitated more than $200m worth of card fraud worldwide and stole information relating to 1.1 million credit cards.

About 16,000 members of the site could gain access via a secure login and specify the quantity and type of credit card data they wanted, with discounts offered for bulk purchases.

The website also had a facility for users to check the card information they were buying was usable.

As well as the man in Croydon, a 37-year-old from West Ham and a 44-year-old from Manor Park were arrested.

Eight arrests were also simultaneously made in Vietnam.

In the United States, charges have already been brought by the US Department of Justice against one of the suspected ring leaders, Duy Hai Truong, 23, of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.

Andy Archibald, interim Deputy Director of the National Cyber Crime Unit at SOCA said: "One of the world’s major facilitation networks for online card fraud has been dismantled by this operation, and those engaged in this type of crime should know that they are neither anonymous, nor beyond the reach of law enforcement agencies."