Gardai have welcomed the jailing today of a major international fraud kingpin who could potentially have made up to €5 m from the cloning of stolen credit cards.
Daniel Almajanu (35) and his sidekick Albert Gimy Linul (29) were jailed for four years and four months and three years respectively at Dublin Circuit Court today.
They were caught after a special investigation by the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau (GNECB).
A senior source had told Independent.ie that a laptop which seized by fraud squad detectives as part of the investigation contained the details of up to 1000 credit cards.
“Each card has potential to make around €3,000 to €5,000 especially in USA where there is no chip and pin facility. Not all the cards would have worked and some would be accepted but there was the potential for this gang to make between €3m and €5m,” the source explained.
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