The leader of a major international fraud gang was claiming Pandemic Unemployment Payments (PUP) from the State despite being locked up in jail awaiting his court outcome, the Irish Independent can reveal.
THE leader of a major international fraud gang was claiming Pandemic Unemployment Payments (PUP) from the State despite being locked up in jail awaiting his court outcome, the Herald can reveal.
Daniel Almajanu (35) was jailed for four years and four months on Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to two counts of having custody of 53 fake bank cards and one count of making 65 fake bank cards at various locations around Dublin between January 1 and February 13 last year.
The Romanian national also pleaded guilty to one count of possessing a laptop designed to make false cards.
Gardaí said this week that data found on that laptop showed that he could have made up to €5m from his cloned credit card scam.
Romanian organised crime gang members jailed for making and using fake credit cards
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard one Dublin-based gang member made fake credit cards using information collected from an extensive skimming operation in the UK while second man used cards to buy cigarettes in Dublin newsagents and then sold them on
Both men were arrested when gardaí noticed them acting suspiciously in Temple Bar in February last year.
Wed, 03 Feb, 2021 - 21:34
Isabel Hayes
Two members of a Romanian organised crime gang who made dozens of fake credit cards and used them in Dublin shops in the wake of a “deep” skim of UK bank customers details have been jailed.
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Two members of Romanian crime gang jailed for making and using fake credit cards in Dublin shops
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard details an extensive skimming operation in the UK. By Isabel Hayes Wednesday 3 Feb 2021, 12:33 PM Feb 3rd 2021, 12:33 PM 23,173 Views 51 Comments
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Image: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie
TWO MEMBERS OF a Romanian organised crime gang who made dozens of fake credit cards and used them in Dublin shops in the wake of a “deep” skim of UK bank customers’ details have been jailed.
Daniel Almajanu (35) made fake cards using a card reader/writer machine while Albert Gimy Linul (29) visited various shops buying things with the fake cards, including cartons of cigarettes which were then sold on.
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