Four years for ATM fraud

A “major player” in ATM fraud who stole over €25,000 in a week and was caught after trying to avoid a garda checkpoint has been given a four year sentence by at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Yanislav Alekandrov (aged 29), a Bulgarian national who has 21 previous convictions, first aroused garda suspicions when he avoided a checkpoint and then told gardaí who searched his car that he had got five cloned cards as “a present”.