Two members of Romanian crime gang face sentencing for making fake credit cards

The men made dozens of fake credit cards after a “deep” skim of HSBC bank customers' details in the UK and used them in Dublin.

Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that during an extensive skimming operation in the UK a Romanian criminal gang based there used a “deep insert skimmer” to collect details of customers of the HSBC bank outlets. File photo

Two members of a Romanian organised crime gang made dozens of fake credit cards and used them in Dublin shops in the wake of a “deep” skim of UK bank customers' details, a court has heard.

Daniel Almajanu (aged 35) made fake cards using a card reader/writer machine while Albert Gimy Linul (aged 29) visited various shops buying things with the fake cards, including cartons of cigarettes which were then sold on.